The Real Cost of Planting Trees
Scientific American Careful monitoring and up-front investment are necessary to ensure reforestation efforts yield benefits for communities and biodiversity Advertisement In Senegal’s Siné-Saloum and Casamance deltas, green seedlings poke through the water’s surface, standing on end like string beans reaching to the sky. There, in spindly clusters and lines, is the next generation of mangroves: six native species selected, seed collected from mature groves, then planted directly, or sometimes grown first in nurseries. Some villagers say that without reforestation, they would have left th...