How drone technology is helping plant 100 million mangrove trees in the UAE by 2030
In Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, an ambitious project to plant and restore coastal mangroves is underway. Theis part of a nationwide effort to plant 100 million mangrove trees by 2030 across the UAE. In 2023 alone, it distributed over six million seeds using specially adapted drones. Each drone carries up to 6000seeds with a delivery system that shoots them downwards, ensuring they get stuck into tidal mud, allowing them to successfully propagate.
A team of scientists support the project by identifying the best location for protection and restoration, assessing soil conditions, water quality, circulation and tidal inundation levels at each prospective site, and then monitoring them over subsequent years. “Our key priority first and foremost is to protect what naturally exists and then enhance it with a bit of science-based restoration effort,” saysat the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency, who is a lead scientist on the project.
The hope is that learning from the ADMI project will have applications in other mangrove-growing regions. “Mangroves are real climate superheroes,” saysdirector of conservation and policy at the Zoological Society of London, a project partner. “There are about 147,000 square kilometres of mangroves left in the world, but they have been under heavy historical pressure,” he says.
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