As early as a long time ago, the United Nations Environment Program launched a plan called "Action for Billion Trees".
The main goal of this plan is to alleviate the environmental problems caused by the warming of the blue star in the fields of anti-desertification, tree planting, greening, oasis establishment and environmental sustainable development.
Later, this plan evolved and became the "Million Forests" tree planting plan, planting millions of trees on five continents around the world.
The northern Philippine region has always been the hardest hit area for land desertification.
Due to the backward development of the entire region, coupled with years of plundering by colonists, most countries and people live in poverty, and there is basically no desert governance here.
It is impossible for them to centralize governance with the power of one country and plant trees for all the people like Xia Guo.
So the area of the desert is getting bigger every year, and there is no way to control it.
Usually, only some small environmental protection organizations under the UNEP are doing tree planting and sand control, and their model is basically to spend money to hire local people to work.
Kulti is one of the hired farmers.
The organization that hired him is called the North African Youth Environmental Fighters Alliance, and their organizer is Heba Alfara, a female environmentalist who has been awarded by the United Nations.
Kulti was waiting at the entrance of the village early in the morning, and today was the day when the organization delivered the saplings.
The organization regularly sends saplings to the hired farmers every month for them to plant trees. As long as the saplings are planted in that month, the work is considered completed.
Of course, the organization will also send people to check the effect of planting trees from time to time, because some people who like to sneak and play tricks will always secretly throw away the saplings for white-collar wages.
Kulti is not such a person. Although he is not well-educated and can only read a few hundred characters, he is very aware of the dangers of the desert. Planting trees is the only way to make the desert better. I am also willing to do it, as long as I can support my family.
After waiting for a while, the saplings arrived.
Kulti stood up and waved towards the car.
The car stopped, and a white man and a black man jumped out of the car, both acquaintances.
The white man is called Mike, and he is an employee of the Environmental Planning Agency. His main job is to transport and distribute saplings.
The black boy is a local named Walid, who works for the North African Youth Environmental Fighters Union. His main task is to communicate with the local people and record the distribution of saplings.
Kulti usually deals with these two people, so he is already familiar with them. He first greeted each other in the local language, and then asked why they were late, because he had been looking at the branch stuck on the ground to count the time. , the shadow of the branch has been shortened by half.
"The delivery of the saplings this time was many days late. We spent a whole day handing over yesterday and finished it in the early morning, so we started a little late in the morning."
White Mike explained in his poor local language, and Turti listened carefully for a while before he understood.
Walid patted Turti on the shoulder with a smile: "Move the sapling down first, we have to hurry to the next village."
"OK."
Kulti started working without saying a word.
The car is full of dense saplings, bundled in bundles, the same as before.
But what made Turkulti a little strange was that these saplings seemed a little different from the previous ones, so he asked directly: "Why are these saplings different from the ones from last two months?"
Mike replied: "The last batch of saplings has been used up, here are new saplings."
Kurti frowned in disappointment, and said to Mike: "Why not use the saplings from last time? Those saplings are very good, and they will grow after planting. They are better than other saplings. I like to plant such saplings."
Kulti spoke a bit too fast, and Mike couldn't understand it, so he had to rely on Waleed to translate.
After figuring out what Turkulti meant, he picked up a bundle of saplings, looked at them, and said with some doubts: "Why do I think these saplings grow bigger and should be better... Well, why do you all say that the previous How about a batch of saplings?"
"It's not a question of whether it grows big or not, but a question of whether it can grow alive if it is planted."
Kuer explained with hands and feet: "We used to plant trees. After planting, half of the saplings would die if they were not watered for a few days. Not to mention the sandstorms, the newly planted saplings would not survive at all. But The saplings that are still two months old are very good, and they can live if they are planted, and it doesn’t matter if they need less watering, and they are not afraid of the wind and sand, and many of them survive, so that the trees can be planted quickly.”
Walid hastily translated Turkurti's words to Mike, and then asked one more question: "Mike, where did those saplings come from before? Now that the farmers have agreed, why don't you continue to use those saplings?"
Mike fell silent.
The Salala Desert is the largest desert in the world. It is controlled by strong subtropical airflow all year round, and the climate is very harsh. Therefore, there is no hope for successful governance.
The current consensus formed by the United Nations Environment Program and various environmental protection organizations basically hopes to effectively control the continued expansion of the Sahara Desert through scientific governance, so that the environment around the desert can be improved, nothing more.
They planted trees around the Shara Desert, and it has been said that the results have been very little over the years.
The reason is simple, because of the harsh environment and climate, and the serious lack of water resources, it is difficult for the planted saplings to survive, making their efforts often useless.
Moreover, after the saplings are planted, they also need maintenance for a long time.
For them, maintenance means hiring more people and spending more money.
These will be heavy burdens. For environmental protection organizations like theirs, such a burden will directly crush their finances, so it is not easy.
Before, I sent seedlings along the way, and I have passed through several villages. The farmers in those villages, like Turkurti, praised the previous saplings for their goodness and hoped to continue to use the previous saplings.
This made Mike realize that the previous sapling was really different, and he had to react upwards to explain the situation.
Of course, as a staff member of the United Nations Environment Programme, he has also heard about the bribery of the purchasing commissioner that has been rumored recently, and it seems that the matter of changing the saplings this time has something to do with it.
This made him feel a little helpless. He was just a low-level employee, and there were many things that he could not make decisions on.
But no matter what, after he is going to go back, he will immediately report the matter to his superiors. If it doesn’t work, he will write an email to report to the higher level.