An Overview Of Our Solution
Rain forests across the world are in great danger. Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2016 reports
revealed that 7 million hec. of forests are lost annually while agricultural land expands by 6 million.
The biggest threat to forests today is industrial agriculture production of commodities and logging.
Only 4 billion hec. of forest remain worldwide according to Global Forest Resources Assessment
2015.
The massive loss of trees has led to Loss of Biodiversity and also loss of Carbon Sinks a role uniquely
played naturally by trees leading to Global warming and consequently Climate change.
we have wounded our planet so much that life beyond tomorrow seems to be a doubtful event. We need to restore it to a strong and healthy habitation it was before now before it is too late to reverse no-wander annual plant seven billion trees recovery initiative is borne.
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- Continent: Africa
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Context Analysis
Since the start of human civilization, we have brought down the global tree count with nearly 46%
leaving the world with only 3 trillion trees out of which greengrowing.org concludes that 15.3 billion trees are cut down each year. Furthermore the reports suggested that major categories contributing to forest loss include: Timber harvesting (37%), agricultural expansion (28%), wildfire (21%), construction of roads for resource mining and extraction, power lines (12%) and expansion of transportation networks via roads (2%).
Massive cut down of trees have led to a rampart accumulation of greenhouse gases which are the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect responsible for inciting global warming, rising levels of radiation in the earths atmosphere and ultimately climate change an escalating catastrophe for over the last few hundred years now and has lead to droughts, floods, unexpected weather patterns in most parts of the earth, reducing crop production and high poverty rates.
Describe the technical solution you wanted the target audience to adopt
Addressing the aforementioned concerns, a behavioral changing idea is borne, an innovation called annual plant seven(7) billion trees recovery , With barely a simple but effective and workable approach. It is adept at employing individual on the face of the earth to plant at least one tree a year.
According to most recent statistics , The current world population is estimated at 7.5 billion as of 1 January 2018.
With these statistics, let's imagine that through thorough education, sensitization and funding we succeeded to engage every individual to plant at least a tree per year. With assumption that they all positively respond, we will be sure of about 7 billion trees accumulation each year.
Thus, to the total of 3 trillion estimated number of surviving tree resources globally, a 0.23% increase will be seen each year and that's so significant change.
The initiative will retrieve over 46.7% of the estimated 15.3billion trees that are cut down each year.
Type of intervention
Describe your behavioral intervention
This approach also comes with a unique social and psychological implant that it shall cultivate and impart in the lives people across the globe, especially in re-positioning of mindset.
People abuse and demean the forest resource because firstly; the did not plant them, they wasted no effort to see them grow, trees are naturally found around us.
Secondly; people luck adequate knowledge or information on the basic importance of tree resource and ultimately the role they play to our lives and prosperity of our planet and lastly; poverty, settlements as well as demands resulting from the growing industrial and agricultural needs.
This approach, logically speaking, it is about inculcating a golden culture of responsibility and
positivism towards nature among its recipients.
It is common sense that people would no longer abuse what they planted with their own hands because by then they would have had enough information to equip them to live with nature in harmony as before and that's what is more important.
No more forests shall be tempered in future, This planet would be by far a better place to live, even better than what was before human industrial civilization activities. we will transcend into an era, with this great forest resource,surrounded and supported by a population of people, educated and equipped with responsibility as well as information worth giving nature maximum care and attention it deserves.
As needed, please explain the type of intervention in more detail
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Describe your implementation
This initiative can be made successful through a threesome strategy.
• Comprehensive regional research
A team of researchers consisting of foresters and climate experts are to be sent out into various
parts across the world to carry out a comprehensive survey based on the natural regions we have,
the climates as well as the types of forests involved in each of the regions. This research will be based
on identifying; firstly, the indigenous tree species that would adapt quite easily and survive in such
regions; secondly, the trees that would bring economic, nutritional as well medicinal value. survey must also arrive at the suitable technology to use in order to set up nurseries that would best produce such tree species needed and varieties and just in case of desert areas how to best raise trees in such arid conditions.
• Setting up tree nurseries in identified regions
Massive nursery centers shall be set in the various parts of the globe based on the earlier survey, the best arrived at of technology shall be implemented to achieve quick to grow, healthy and disease resistant tree species or varieties we need.
• Delivery of the initiative
finally the initiative is ready to be delivered to the people. Massive efforts are to be employed that
includes firstly, holding training and workshops to educate and equip personnel who then will be sent
in targeted areas identified throughout the globe to campaign, educate, and sensitize masses,
eventually to encouraging all the members of the local areas or communities across coverage young
or small to plant at least a tree and importantly to teach them how to look after them.
With simultaneous efforts supported by active involvements of interested governments whose efforts
and support in this case are inevitable, if this idea will be a success.
Partnership with already existing local and international organizations from various parts of the world; learning institutions and just all relevant stakeholders.
External connections
With simultaneous efforts supported by active involvements of interested governments whose efforts and support in this case are inevitable, this idea will be a success. Partnership with already existing local and international organizations, also plantation companies and others that exists in various parts of the continent sharing our common goal; learning institutions; all the stakeholders; traditional leaders; flexible religious organizations as well as the media using all such as platforms to move the initiative. Such efforts will compel people to plant numbers of trees in various places including backyards, streets, forested areas, learning institutions, work places, communities and everywhere possible. Brochures, leaflets and articles will be published on various platforms
including social media so that this information reaches as far wide as it can.
funding will largely rely on external support system by welshers who will see it fit to revert our planet to a paradise it was before.
Who adopted the desired behaviors and to what degree?
This project is entirely a new idea that seeks its way to implementation. however, efforts are being made, I am in the process of establishing a non profit organization in Zambia called 'Our Passion for the Greens' with 20 members so far, with the organization on its grassroots, right now in the process of registration. It is an group of youths that are willing to do anything to preserve and restore the forest resource and through that, fight Climate Change. Am focusing the youths for two things, firstly because their influence and energy is inevitable in this fight and secondly, because they compose 100% of the future.
The idea is to use this organization as the platform where i can voice out and demonstrate this idea. I am so confident if this idea is adopted it can bring a great educational revolt it shall impart some behavioral change in the lives of many. Especially if it was adopted by organizations of greater influence and sell out the idea.
How did you impact natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions?
Though not tried yet but from logical point of view in the near future, say 15 years from now, if we aimed at planting seven(7) billion trees a year, will have accumulated over a trillion trees, that is about over 40% of the trees that have been lost over time. That will bring about a great reduction on greenhouse effects as Trees shall create a greater source of natural environmental syncs of greenhouse gases and a great source of biodiversity. Deserts will start closing and wildlife will find this planet a comfortable environment to re-breed as well as reestablish and multiply
What were some of the resulting co-benefits?
Though we no-longer live in the jungle, we are modern and civilized society as we put it, but what if we tunned our modern civilization into conservation and economic sustainability, how much more could this idea lead us? here are the co benefits this would come with, we will transcend into this new era of a tree based economies, where trees will be appreciated for their true values they deserve.
trees shall be the most cherished and more valuable resource on the face of the earth and will attract great cost, countries will be planting trees as source of great revenue. we will create this modern jungle where it will become almost pointless to spend on fruits, at the backyards people will have fruits. you don't need to be poor or rich to plant a tree, it means people, each will have something to eat and wont die of hunger. Nature will begin healing itself, this will come with great biodiversity and future for trees will be sure.
Sustainability
Many projects of this nature have failed time and again in time past because for such huge innovation or initiative to be realized, it requires equivalent backings in terms of intensive funding and adoption for support by such platforms of recognition and international influence and with partnerships with all relevant stakeholders and credible organization which is the only step left for the annual plant seven (7) billion trees initiative to be a successful program.
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How could we successfully replicate this solution elsewhere?
As stated earlier, this solution has not yet been implemented anywhere before. but it comes with great potential to succeed and bring great behavioral change towards nature and perception about climate change as the whole. All that is needed as stipulated earlier, is massive voice from platforms of higher influence. If only this idea was sold out with proper channels and voiced out to attract international attention, a lot of results would be by far reached. All i would want is my idea to be spread, adopted, funded and implimented. Climate change is effecting the global community, we therefore need to solve it as a global community.