it's amazing how you can make plants grow in a desert by <checks notes> piping in water SCIENCE HAS NO EXPLANATION FOR THIS TRADITIONAL / CONVENTIONAL FARMERS CAN'T UNDERSTAND THIS CHECKMATE, HATERS ! https://twitter.com/mojos55/status/1411109970762944516 …
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It's part of a reforestation project by the famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. In their site there's some more details (in portuguese) and some more pics, before reforesting the land was used for cattle grassing. https://institutoterra.org/
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You can see in google maps sat images that the region still has patches of forests scattered around:https://www.google.com/maps/place/Instituto+Terra/@-19.505652,-41.082839,5110m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xb73bbbb22033f9:0x727bf0457776b894!8m2!3d-19.5044132!4d-41.0710966 …
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apparently it was a rain forest when he was a kid, all the trees were cut down. the land may look deserty, but i think rain forests sort of create their own topsoil over otherwise not great ground?https://www.boredpanda.com/brazilian-couple-recreated-forest-sebastiao-leila-salgado-reforestation/ …
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Tropical rainforests have poor soil because high temp and humidity cause nutrients to cycle quickly rather than getting incorporated into the soil. Forests establish/reestablish quickly where sufficient water is present and herd animals are limited.
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