Stop The Spread Of The Deserts With The Waterboxx Plantcocoon®
Here you see the Rio Puerco basin, a tributary of the Rio Grande River that runs along the U.S. border. The Rio Puerco basin is one of the most eroded and desertified areas in the United States because of overgrazing of livestock.
Desertification is the change from fertile ground to plant-less desert. This happens for several reasons, but this disaster is frequently man-made. Overgrazing (where livestock pull out the roots of plants, destabilizing soil) to tilling in agriculture to climate change all cause desertification. It has been a process that we have not had a way to reverse, until now. The Waterboxx PlantCocoon® was designed to plant trees in desertified areas. Because water still exists in these areas, planting of appropriate trees can cool and stabilize the soil, provide a home for wildlife and value for the landowner in timber or other products. See the video below:
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior/USGS
U.S. Geological Survey/photo by Terrence Moore
Desertification is the change from fertile ground to plant-less desert. This happens for several reasons, but this disaster is frequently man-made. Overgrazing (where livestock pull out the roots of plants, destabilizing soil) to tilling in agriculture to climate change all cause desertification. It has been a process that we have not had a way to reverse, until now. The Waterboxx PlantCocoon® was designed to plant trees in desertified areas. Because water still exists in these areas, planting of appropriate trees can cool and stabilize the soil, provide a home for wildlife and value for the landowner in timber or other products. See the video below:
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior/USGS
U.S. Geological Survey/photo by Terrence Moore
As you can see, plants are very unlikely to recolonize desertified land without human intervention. Luckily with the Groasis Waterboxx PlantCocoon®, trees can be planted in the desert with a high survival rate (88-99%). These trees can then survive by accessing capillary water in the soil. The Waterboxx PlantCocoon® can then be reused for up to ten years, planting more trees and converting unusable dry land into wooded areas.
