Lebanon Reforestation Initiative - Grow Forests Change lives Part 1

Since 2011, Lebanon Reforestation Initiative have planted more than half-a-million native tree species all over Lebanon. This video will take you on a green trip to showcase some of the successful planted sites.

[@MarcoMeerman]

I love watching these video's as an opposite to daily news of pollution, waste, animals suffering, crime, etc.

[@828anuradha]

Well said, these r best videos

[@tomm4073]

Me too Marco. Totally agree. By our last name we may be distantly related. I am a Meerman too.

[@5kunk157h35h17]

@@tomm4073 I am a Meerman as well. We are a tribe that has spread across the globe. I hope in the future, we will come together as one family. But the past has not treated us kindly.

[@5kunk157h35h17]

I believe that our decline began during the 1600's, when one of us was accused of treachery against the crown, while positioned abroad. Hopefully one day our names will be cleared. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Meerman

[@1voluntaryist]

@@5kunk157h35h17 How can one person's crime be the crime of others? That is superstitious, racism. Also, "the crown" politics is violence against innocent citizens. Can attacking systematic exploitation be "treachery"? Or, is it defense?

[@flawless_undergoer]

If the landscape of Lebanon is full of lebanese cedars , umbrella pines , aleppo pines ,mediterranean cypresses ,oaks ,junipers it would become the prettiest on the Earth ! Trees and woodlands can lend the greatest prettiness to every landscape on the Earth ! Well-done amazing Lebanon!

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

These are Brutia pines

[@olowrohek9540]

Well done 👏 Good luck We still planting new Trees 🌳 and Forest in Poland 🇵🇱 Forest must last forever.

[@maa3770]

good luck for you too. I am also enthusiasts about afforestation.

[@arvison9]

Wherever in the world, reforestation take place, gives me great sigh of relief and hope.

[@satawamovlogs9112]

Its true let help our planet clean and green , plants more tree plants more bamboo it will protect us

[@tanakakokilovad1594]

I hope lebanon is green again 🌱🌿🍃🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌍planty trees 🌱. Save lives 🌎🌏🌍🌱is time for trees 🌱🌿🍃🌳🌳🌳🌳

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

That’s a really great survival rate. Congratulations from Cornwall.

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

When I plant trees I always use cardboard as a mulch, several pieces, it’s free and retains moisture, and hear in England attracts loads of worms. Best of luck.

[@karimrishani8298]

Mabrouk great news in these difficult times. Especially the success rate is amazing

[@kimberleypex]

GREAT ! Light in the darkness ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@phoenicianbird109]

Thank you LRI and thank you USAID 👍

[@mcknorth]

more trees and more bees for the people

[@paxtoncargill4661]

I love bees but just not when they are near me. I swear every bee in a 1 mile radius immediately finds where I am and chases me down.

[@yousufsiddiqsyed4412]

@@paxtoncargill4661 haha , u might have some royal blood or qualities

[@samoday2992]

That’s brilliant . Let’s try and heal the planet

[@frydisfjell527]

Native plants and trees! maybe the wildlife will return soon.

[@sophorssor8702]

Well done

[@carpetanoknight9727]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 increíble ojalá sigan plantan y plantando más árboles tenemos que volver verde el planeta otra vez 🌲🌳🌲🌳

[@malekmawla9510]

Keep on going

[@navneetsahay196]

Great hope that future is safe if we have good people around with good intentions Each one if us whomis birwing this must raise at least a small forest of 100trees at the minimum This endeavour will turn earth green

[@sauco7024]

Planting pines only will eventually be a problem. I suggest other native species are incorporated in the reforestation projects as we are now trying to do in Spain.

[@sulemanriaz8530]

Welk done every country should spend money on this type of projects not on making weapons Only peace!!!love from🇵🇰

[@korea.festival]

Great video. Love your channel. Keep up the excellent work!!! Wonderful upload! Keep it up! +thumb up3!

[@pedrothewise2584]

great to see.

[@TheAhmedvienna]

My new year resolution is to put some money into this project every month. You guys are saints..!

[@kokokostamamkostaman6336]

God give water so animal as live stock growing and human mere read male and famela so have Here read it task. Many grass on your landscape so green nice life in large garden. Godbless to you and Thank'slot.

[@inlikearefugee5194]

Plant the trees & dig the swales.

[@pawanjindal4286]

great work I proud you

[@tiagosolvalagio4535]

Amazing!!!! 😍

[@davidcuschieri8838]

Amazing work @lebanonreforestationiniative 👍 Love what you are doing 🙏🌳

[@satawamovlogs9112]

Yes so amazing

[@ninjalanternshark1508]

I approve of this

[@Songa-ge7ij]

Feels good🙏🏽

[@beneditodaltongoesneto9697]

Excelent Work. Congratulations

[@satawamovlogs9112]

🌳🌳🌳🏞️🌄

[@MACACONEGRO]

EXCELENTE !!! Magnífico trabajo 👌👌👌👌👌

[@satawamovlogs9112]

Nice to have this kind of people🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

[@temmon8493]

Superrrbbbbbb, keep the good work.. superb wow incredible

[@eliocuellar4076]

Dios bendiga a el Libano translation God bless Lebanon.

[@katoliktradycji2009]

Super!

[@pawanjindal4286]

great work.welcom India .

[@josebenitez3732]

Kudos on your project. What of the planting and reforestation of Lebanon Cedar?

[@hulk6057]

The last seedlings you see are cedars

[@m.b.5839]

Just a hint when you are planting trees in arid environments: the Groasis Waterboxx. There is plenty of information on youtube on the Waterboxx. There is no need for irrigation when you use the Waterboxx. This invention has been succesfully tested in Marocco. Have a look : www.groasis.com/

[@soulshadoww55]

So true. I've seen the Groasis videos and they are truly life changing. More governments and non-profits need to use them.

[@jacobeksor6088]

I am Montagnard indigenous central highland when I was grown up we have thick jungles around our village today Vietnamese take over Montagnard land they cut it all down .

[@Nick-vl7lk]

Excellent work, is there any work being done on watershed restoration or catchment projects within the reforestation scheme areas?

[@jamessang5027]

That's the secret. Once, there is water vegetation will grow!

[@sheetalbhalerao8192]

Also plant tall,spreading shadows like banyan, peeple, umber, shyamali,jamun, dates, mango,etc-r fruit trees, neem shareware,ritha medicinal, Rith&Shikakai,r soap trees,for biofuels-jatropa karanj etc..

[@yellowbird5411]

We might want to change our view that if "someone" wants to do something for the public good, they must pay someone to do it. Planting trees, grasses, building and designing water retention areas, establishing forests, planting wildflowers, refurbishing ponds and lakes, clearing out dead wood from wildfire areas, etc. can all be done with organizing volunteers on a 365 schedule. Masses of people can get tremendous projects accomplished simply by asking for them. Not enough effort is made to get volunteers together for public land and property renewal. Not everything should be about money.

[@LastBastion]

People need to eat and make living tho

[@halnelson5936]

Deadwood is not responsible of wildfire on the contrary

[@denisfresco2380]

Good job, the only thing I don't like is they planted only one species of trees, then it's like a plantation more than a forest, there is few biodiversity.

[@hugoorlandosveruga7610]

Muy bien, deberían reforestar con cedros del Líbano!!!

[@ZahidKhan-em4zu]

ماشاءالله

[@pinkelephants1421]

Where irrigation is assessed as necessary, how long do you continue to irrigate for & do you time the irrigation to come on overnight to allow for maximum H20 absorption?

[@miracleshappen4483]

Y E S !!!

[@geoffbreen2386]

It would be nice to see a lot of Lebanese Cedar planted on the higher areas. I assume the Pines are Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) which is a native plant to this region.

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

They are pinus brutia

[@geoffbreen2386]

@@husseinoskovjino9398 I was not aware of this species, but now understand it is native to this region. Thank you.

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

@@geoffbreen2386 greetings from Iraq my friend

[@geoffbreen2386]

@@husseinoskovjino9398 Greetings from Australia.

[@Parimal116]

👌👌👌

[@jamessang5027]

Increase their survival rate by putting them in a basin. This will help collect rainwater.

[@nazemjaduoh3838]

❤️

[@satawamovlogs9112]

🏞️🌳🌳🌳🌳🌄🌿🌿🌿😯

[@navneetsahay196]

Plant sumac trees Marula trees Azadirachta Indica trees Yellow oleander trees also they survive well

[@sjvche7675]

They need this from the headwaters of the Indus River to Gibraltar, 10 billion trees.

[@JuliaJulia-mi3wf]

❤️🤗

[@innerengineering3396]

Only if there was a machine/robot to plant these seedballs properly fast at scale and water these seedballs once in while. Maybe if the seedball was made by adding manure of local species like goats and cows, they may not eat it. #savesoil

[@user-gd1tu4mc4r]

Are these areas fenced off or can grazing animals access them?

[@madhumitaroy1134]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏do it

[@maticbukovac6966]

I see people criticising planting conifers only in an arid climate. The example of Karst region in Slovenia, which gave the name to the karst geological phenomenon in the world, had a similar deserted landscape after the oak forests have been used by the Venetians for pillars when building Venice. After the fall of Venetian republic the first initiatives for reforestation began in the 19th century. BUT the first foresters made a mistake: they tried to plant oaks again, but the soil for them has eroded due to the lack of trees and their root systems, which were naturally keeping the soils in place. The oak saplings died and they planted pines, which are less demanding and did take root in the inhospitable landscape. When the soil was restored the oak and other broad-leaf trees began to return, a process even accelerated by the current climate change, which in that particular area seems to be favoured by oaks, while the formerly thriving pines are now literally dying out. Mind you, this is/was a process of at least 50 years , if not 100 and 150 in some places....

[@halnelson5936]

We can do it together, the best is to mix broad-leaf trees and conifers, it's giving them healthy concurrency and dynamic

[@navneetsahay196]

Plant those species which support bird and squirrel।life like java plum ,Black currants ,figs pears apricots

[@mrcatman6374]

Do people chop these now for heating with the deep economic and energy crisis?

[@shannonalaminski2619]

I noticed I didn't see any sheep or goats in this video of green stuff.

[@satawamovlogs9112]

Plants trees ,bamboo and native babana casava it will help soil productive🏞️🌄🌳🌳

[@siddharthbhise545]

Are you planting saplings of the same species ??!!

[@madhumitaroy1134]

Super fastes foresting or Plantaion must

[@unicornbunny6190]

One question; are those trees planted Native trees to Lebanon?

[@elieelias4928]

Yes cedars are the symbol of Lebanon and also pins are native

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

Pinus brutia is still natively seen in lebanon

[@nicholaslittle2312]

Wonder why they seem to thev planted all pines.

[@nicolediedrichsen3000]

Have you tried supporting nature (water, protection, less usage...) so it can regenerate itself with native plants and animals instead of planting trees? Maybe you'll have some rare species come back up. A natural ecosystem with many different native plants and animals is healthier and stronger. Wishing you all the best.

[@hagvaktok]

All the planted trees looked like pines. What about the Cedars of Lebanon?

[@halnelson5936]

More up in the mountains

[@ronilovillanueva8666]

i watched a lot of documentary and videos about reforestation, water and land management and most of the aid came from USA

[@georgehariz2966]

How can we revive this once successful endeavor?

[@TheKillerman1998]

How many species have you planted?

[@peterjohnenelsonbien-aime8486]

What s method do you use?

[@maggygonzalez4885]

Solo plantan pinos?? A quien alimenta el pino?

[@northernmaten7676]

@Lebanon Reforestation Initiative im lebanese and i want to join you how?

[@galaxyofvid2738]

They should use the land for big fruit farm forests of almond olive pomegranate orange cashew avocado grapes wines gavava mango and so on its will be both fruit and forest cover on land

[@elieelias4928]

Yes you're right olives pomegranate figs.. are native trees they can plant them as diverse forest.

[@maticbukovac6966]

Almond and avocado? You do know those are infamous for guzzling water?

[@dan8910100]

the numbers dont add up. like at 1:13, how do you plant 11,000 trees on 13 hectare?? there's not enough room. this cant be right.

[@madhumitaroy1134]

Fastes foresting must

[@yzbib00]

طبعا الفيديو لازم يكون بالإنغليزي :) وطبعا لازم الشجر المزروع يكون نوع واحد هو الصنوبر لأنو بيطلّع مصاري :) مش مهم التنوع الطبيعي

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

مزروع الشجر الارز اللبناني باخير الفديو

[@galaxyofvid2738]

Why not fruit trees forest it will restore wild life birds eye and goverment can get fruits too for people

[@allardfreichmann3733]

One can only grow trees which are natural to it's environment. Maybe in time when the soil has recovered enough one may grow other plants. But this takes a lot of effort and research. Or for feeding humans one can use hydroponic vertical farming. It all depends how a region develops.

[@LebanonReforestation]

We are currently working on an Agroforestry Project ;)

[@galaxyofvid2738]

@@LebanonReforestation i wish you guys gets success inshallah

[@alberpajares4792]

The desert is the war..,

[@madhumitaroy1134]

Fastest foresting is must but deserts are not saveto the people

[@volodimirkrug8928]

Чому не висаджують ендемічних дерев, чому одні сосни

[@dannan8853]

Unsaid away America

[@user-uw3fi2zg4t]

i see to much white pine, you gonna have processionary moth issues, you need some diversity of species

[@madhumitaroy1134]

Fastes plantaion mywaki methods but sdesrt not goid

[@joaquimbarbosa896]

Spamiong pines isn't good

[@93VIDEO]

you have chosen very bad trees, softwoods, they don't make rain and they are very bad for biodiversity. The timber industry thanks you because these trees will end up being cut down!

[@patrickflynn6423]

Planting trees shrubs and native fawner should be a planet wide heritage plan to create jobs and to educate people that cutting down trees for example without planting more than that are cut down is a only going to destroy our natural environment . All London wants to do is to build concrete towers without any green parts and then in turn blame people for driving cars ,if cities want a green future then vehicles should not be allowed into them unless a person is disabled , working and the need to carry tools ,delivering food ,taxis taking people to various places , Khan the so called Mayor wants to rob people to fund his bankrupt ideas ,well he has bankrupted TFL and now he want to rob working people who are the backbone of our economy and country , if anyone votes this fella then they need their heads tested . So if you are likeminded then lets get rid of him for the good of our country .