This Drone Startup Has An Ambitious (Crazy) Plan To Plant 1 Billion Trees A Year. The world burns or cuts down about 26 billion trees a year.
It replants about 15 billion. You can see the shortfall. At the moment, we're not planting trees quickly enough to combat deforestation—a problem with big implications for climate change. That's why Lauren Fletcher wants to automate the process with drone technology. His startup, BioCarbon Engineering, plans to seed up to 1 billion trees a year, all without ever setting foot on the ground.
The networked beauty of forests - Suzanne Simard. Cutting down trees.