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These Seed-Firing Drones Plant Thousands of Trees Each Day/ Pioneers of our Planet

This tech company is helping restore our forests by using tree-firing drones.

Susan Graham, the CEO of Dendra Systems, says that we need to plant tens of billions of trees every year through technology to restore forests and go green. The scale of our actions is what will re-green our world. And that’s why we need to use technology to scale these efforts.

We can use all our ideas and innovation to leave the planet in a better place. Working with a team of passionate engineers, math scientists, and drone operators, they developed an idea to use digital intelligence and drone technology to plant billions of trees.

Globally we are losing 10 billion trees annually by increasing carbon in our atmosphere and accelerating climate change. Restoring our forests will aid in stabilizing the climate.

Since we as humans invented the chain saw, we didn’t invent a similar technology to restore then and plant that tree as quickly as we can cut it down. We need that same level of innovation and dedication to restoring our ecosystems.

“Drone-enabled technology plants trees with both accuracy and speed in diverse and often hard-to-reach landscapes. By combining digital intelligence with automation, we can combine the right species and location. Then we upload that into the drone, it goes out, follows that path, and plants those trees where they are needed.” Susan Graham.

“We put the seed into this pod. It’s biodegradable. It has all the nutrients it needs. And when the seed gets shot into the ground, it has a chance to grow into a big strong, healthy tree in 20 years.” Susan.

Susan says that if we don’t restore our ecosystems, we lose out on productive soil, the clean air, water cleaning, and then pulling down carbon. We are losing this opportunity that is right in front of us.

Globally, up to 1 billion hectares of land could be suitable for tree planting. And we cannot rely on traditional methods to restore the land. Dendra Systems envisions planting 5 billion trees.

The Dendra’s drone can plant tens of thousands of trees daily. In the future, swarms of Dendra drones could plant hundreds of trees.