By: RTS | Sciences-Tech | October 31, 2022
Reviving trees buried under the ground and resuscitating forests rather than replanting young shoots, this is the method developed by an Australian agricultural engineer. And this fight against desertification has tangible results, with millions of new trees in twenty years.
Tony Rinaudo has loved trees since he was a child, long before he started studying agronomy. In southern Australia where he was born, he has always scrutinized their shape, their growth, their foliage, their roots.
Now an agricultural engineer, this enthusiast is trying to save his dear trees around the world. He set out to re-green arid areas by regenerating remnants of forest buried in the ground. In particular in Niger, where he left with his wife to work as a missionary and where he inherited a tree planting project.
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