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For anyone who thinks the Scottish highlands are beautiful. Here is what it used to look like and will again one day soon. https://rewildingeurope.com/rew-proj
by smackay 7y ago
For anyone who thinks the Scottish highlands are beautiful. Here is what it used to look like and will again one day soon.
https://rewildingeurope.com/rew-project/restoring-the-caledonian-forest/ https://rewildingeurope.com/rew-project/restoring-the-caledo...
(The video at the bottom is a bit gushing but it's a decent view of what the reforestation projects want to achieve).
- baron_harkonnen 7y agoThis is a great example of exporting your forest needs. About 1/3 of the UK's renewable energy is wood pellets shipped across the ocean from the US [1]. So yes you can have reforestation but for that to happen at the same time as your demand for wood pellets increases you have to burn a lot of bunker fuel to ship that wood across the ocean. But of course in the end you get to claim that you are using more renewable energy and increasing local forest coverage! [1] http://www.biomassmagazine.com/articles/16053/uk-bioenergy-capacity-generation-increased-in-2018 http://www.biomassmagazine.com/articles/16053/uk-bioenergy-c...
- sjmulder 7y agoI think the Scottish highlands are beautiful but wondered why those mountains are mostly bare whereas most mainland ones are wooded. Wasn't happy to read why.