{"id":113107,"date":"2020-09-16T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/reforestation-drones-drop-seeds-instead-of-bombs-planting-100000-trees-a-day-each"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:33:03","slug":"reforestation-drones-drop-seeds-instead-of-bombs-planting-100000-trees-a-day-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/reforestation-drones-drop-seeds-instead-of-bombs-planting-100000-trees-a-day-each","title":{"rendered":"Reforestation Drones Drop Seeds Instead of Bombs, Planting 100,000 Trees a Day Each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reforestation-drones-drop-seeds-instead-of-bombs-planting-100000-trees-a-day-each.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had impressive efforts, such as India planting <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/returntonow.net\/2019\/02\/21\/volunteers-plant-66-million-trees-in-12-hours-smashing-guinness-world-record\/\">66 million trees<\/a><\/strong> in a day, but that was a large-scale event, which required organizing millions of volunteers. It would be difficult to recreate something like that on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, a former NASA engineer has <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/11\/drones-plant-trees-deforestation-environment\/\">developed drones<\/a> <\/strong>that can plant 100,000 trees per day each.<\/p>\n<p>Multiply that by 165 drones, and we could easily fill the 6-billion-tree gap we face each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had impressive efforts, such as India planting 66 million trees in a day, but that was a large-scale event, which required organizing millions of volunteers. It would be difficult to recreate something like that on a regular basis. Luckily, a former NASA engineer has developed drones that can plant 100,000 trees per day each. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}