iam from Greece and i am ecologist.i love the nature,and in my country i plant trees.i love the environment. i have to say a big BRAVO from the bottom of my heart for the israel !!! you are the best !!!! i wish all people treat to nature so good as israel,cause planting trees, is a DUTY for everybody who only take from the earth..

A very inspiring initiative by KKLJNF. it should be adopted as a role-model for entire nations of world, especially those having arid topography. Keep the good works up.

Israel has never ceases to astound me as it positively directs the entire world into hope! Amazing people!! What an inspiration!!

man we need this is Nevada

Every desert should be regrown like this in the world.

Reminds me of a wine and bread thingy from Joshua, well It’s a miracle... Way to go !!! If you keep doing so the desert will bloom !!

Wow ! Beautiful,,,I worked on moshav Pharan in the Negev desert in 1992

This is awesome, truly a dream come true. Thanks to the video producers also for showcasing the details. This technology has immense potential world-wide to bring life to the deserts, whether animal or vegetable life. I read so much about the Negev in the Tanakh and that forests used to cover the Levant and North Africa. The way, the truth, the life will prevail! “I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.” Isaiah 41:18

Very informative documentary gives lot of hopes in the future of this Earth.

wow this is amazing.

For desert and dry arid regions, a plant called "Spekboom" of the genus Portulacaria, which is indiginous to South Africa, would be ideal. It is used to augment fodder for sheep,goats,cattle and wildlife. It can extract vaste quantities of C02-gas from the atmosphere. This makes it the ideal plant for mass-planting to assist in counter-acting the effects of climate change. A must for use in any greenbelt program to roll back desert regions.

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We need this in Antelope Valley

All right, this is really badass and very important!

Somewhere outthere is a tree my children sponsored as to celebrate my birthday in 2005... I can recommend it to everyone ! 🌲 ! The tree has to be 12 years old by now. I just love it. It is very spiritual too. Thank you Israel !

I thought about this & looked it up. I am very encouraged.

A lot of them trees are native Australian trees

I love stories like this

Hopefully every country can bloom!!!

Re Permaculture rain harvesting: In a place where there is less than 2 inches of rain per year (50 mm), the Al Baydha project is growing a forest in the desert too. The source of water is ....the sky. Rain. Yup. Look at the youtube Reversing the Cycle of Desertification. No need to use well water (depletes the underground water in acquifer) or river or sea nor truck water in from somewhere, nor do expensive desalination. Just use what you got. The area in the video above sometimes gets 0 mm of rain for several years. Yet they harvested 13.5 million litres of water when the rain came, using berms and 3.5 kilometers of swales. They had enough water to irrigate 2000 trees for 6 years without another rainfall. Oh yes, they will plant trees that provide fruit, wood, oil, shade, mulch (to keep moisture in soil) fodder for goats, sheep, camel, and flowers for bees to make honey. Will all be free to the inhabitants. Year after year.

Thank you for sharing this video.

We are finally getting it right, praise the lord

I wonder if this desert forest will ever have the ability to become self-sustaining? That would be a great victory for science and life

They are providing Swales which collect water from the water shed area and recharge the ground water table as the swales make damp climate around them eucalyptus is the best plant to grow

Have a look at what Ernst Gosch is doing using eucalyptus to kick start food agroforestry. He basically chips up the biomass putting that into the soil to increase water and nutrient holding capacity and the trimmed trees also create a microclimate. As the forest ages the soil becomes carbon rich allowing higher food value species. All forest have a successional process so by using a species that produces large quantities of biomass that can do that in low fertility soil, it speeds up the process. Some people say they use up a lot of ground water but this isn’t really true because they are actually very shallow rooted. Anyway any water used is returned because the respiration action of a forest attract and create rain. You also get a night time dew condensing effect that would not happen if you have no forest. The other thing that you can do growing eucalyptus is trim them and make biochar with the branches. There are also many species that actually throw of limbs as they grow that you can simply pick up the branches off the ground and make biochar with those but you get a much greater yield if you trim the branches. This is permanent atmospheric carbon sequestration and the char holds a lot of nutrients and moisture plus is a great home for beneficial soil microorganisms. The mature logs can be harvested for high value timber as well.

Awesome! Just awesome.

Very good

Recycling human gray water can help provide more water in city for gardens & green spaces to grow healthy.

Great work

Grassland is the key. Add grasses to your forest and they will maintain themselves much better.

great work

Beautiful God bless Israel

This is great. KKL-JNF shows that we can reforest the deserts of the world. No need to be pessimistic about desertification. Planting and growing trees in the desert can be done. May I point you to a new invention called the Groasis Waterboxx, this device makes trees grow in the desert without irrigation. It is already being used on a large scale in Spain. The company Groasis is based in The Netherlands. There are many films on the Waterboxx here on KZfaq, please have a look. Thank you.

Handy people, love her Land. All Plants need water, all people And Animals need Plants. Good You bless.

For people ever ready to criticise and give negative anything to do with Isreal, I would request you all to at least appreciate this wonderful project which not only help world wide climate but shows us all what it is to help Mother Nature heal herself with a little help from us humans. I think this is one of the greatest project each one of us can do. Thank you for showing us the way Isreal❤️. Everything does not have to do with Muslims and the rest of the world. Remember just because if few Muslim fanatics does not mean all Muslims are bad. Love one another.

From this video all I got was that this video was an advertisement for KKLJNF I am not sure it was mentioned often enough.

Admirable.

this kind of things gives you hope

good stuff

Beautiful! We would like to help.

good job!

Nice work

May God continue to bless Isreal! Why are we not doing this in California? I plan on purchasing a couple acres to see if I can be successful in planting a forest.

Bravo!

Very proud of you !!! Wolf🐺 👍

This people are brilliant

Wonderfully intelligent people.

A lot of them look like pine trees and olive trees. A great job Israel.

We need more of it

Thanks

its good that you guys are doing this but the whole world needs to follow your ideas.

Wow motivational work by u.Also plant banyan, peeple, umber, neem, jamun, Ritha, Imali, kadamb, etc. That grow fast with little care, giving dense shades

I am so proud of you. You love God's creation. Desert could be eliminated. I have a good invention to promoto.

Stole my Christmas tree transplant idea... foster a forest in the desert.

impressive

Mulch is the answer to all of these projects

awesome :)

The article never mentioned where the water comes from. California is the leader is farming the desert. The water in California comes from mountain run off and a limited amount of rain during the winter. Australia has vast deserts but there is no water source to irrigate the land. Drip irrigation was developed in Israel but it still needs a water source.

Amazing Israel....

Amazing, Israel can change the desert to become green, how wonderful, I love Israel.

YES !!!

Your video informs, inspires people around the world. May peace, wealth, (clean, nice) water & health come to Israel, middle east & people around the world.

Sorry Wane Osmond but but if you read the Permaculture book you would know the limonim are an ancient techique developed in Israel. Bill stated as such. He gave credit where credit was due.

And Australia as well

You may want to suggest this to the JNF. It might be a good idea.

don't forget they have to plant fruits to spread them out throughout the forest

Eucalyptus grow fast and hold soil tightly and hep to recharge ground water.

Wow! It's amazing. But, the Negev is not a typical deasert. Coz it is not Sandy but rather a clayey loess soil...

Another outstanding video/article is the crazy African tribes man... He dug holes in the desert and filled them with dug... Long story short Termites came to eat the dug and created tunnels for the rain to soak into.. He planted trees and created a forrest in the desert... Now he's not crazy. . But the teacher...

According to the Book it was a thick forest of Cedars once.

cool

I see a huge need for this through out all the world. Imagine if we can do this in some of the deserts of India n Africa? This could end hunger by growing gardens etc. In the US here we have something called a gel soil. It's actually a gel that has plant food etc in it n you can put it in a flower pot n drop a plant in it n it will do well. I often wonder if a substance like that would help?

Can bamboo be grown in deserted area or dry area ???

Dios bendiga a Israel, desde el Salvador de Centro America

we could call this terraforming Earth!

I wonder, how illegal would it be to plant trees and build wind mills near a highway in the US

Trees can turn a desert into a paradise. Everyone wins (yes, even the Arabs benefit)

Israel is a beacon of hope, knowledge and good will in the world. I pray that GOD continues to bless and protect beautiful Israel and the Jews. GOD preserve them.

you should transplant trees from Brazil and further south!

Choose trees for desert greening more carefully, those that will create water and charge the water table.

This is wonderful but you are planting the wrong kind of trees. We need a variety of trees not just pines and furs. Let us find out which trees are best for here. What about some oaks, elms, and maples trees that sing to the clouds" come here, come here" trees that produce lots of isoprenes and teraprenes. We can make the desert into a rain forest. It has been done else where. It can be done here with careful planning. There are thousands of varieties of trees in the world. Some of them grew here originally. We must discover which they were. I am pleased to see permaculture ideas being used here, but don't let's get caught up in one family of trees. All I am saying is plant variety and set it up to collect the water that is running off now. Don't take me wrong. I love this video.

I hope they're using aquaponics. It uses one tenth of the water compared to growing in soil, the crops grow twice as fast, it's organic and you get fish out of it as well.

I am curious if they planted a diversity of trees (I only saw monocultures). That is important. Pioneer trees are more likely to assist I other plants to establish. China needs to use swales and plant a diversity of trees, as well as change farming practices.

i had a vision about this a year ago, now watching this kind of makes me jealous, too bad I'm not a millionaire to sponsor such a thing.

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man please come to the turkey. there is no desert but in middle of anatolia is no forest

I wonder how much water is needed to maintain these forests.

Ohio, Usa has twice as many trees now as 100 years ago.

You should be working with Alan Savory to bring livestock in and fix the soil in the area. It would be a lot cheaper and it would actually work.

Israel, People of GOD!, bendiciones, Saludos desde Bogotá, Colombia.

Excellent. Plant more trees, create forests, organic gardens, and build less factories and cars. People are depending on each other in order to make this world habitable and sometimes I think extreme religions and selfishness are causing more problems. Nature first, and then people.

Correct ozone layer is must

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are the trees at 3:10 eucalypts?

يا يهود اعملو في الارض وجعلوها جنات جميله وابنو فيها فلابد ان ترجع فلسطين وتخرجون صاغرين منها

Climate degradation is caused by deforestation. It's wonderful to see Israel turning the desert back into forest, good for them. I'd love to see this done across the entire region, the middle east would become a beautiful garden once again, and rivers would flow where now there are none.

This desert is over deep groundwaters right?

7 years ago wow

I wonder if they have ever used the Groasis Waterboxx to plant trees. This device seems very well suited to this desert as it has almost 90% tree survival rates. Does anyone know if the Waterboxx has been used in Israel?

I advice you to plant Ficus religiosa pipal from India . This is our God, It will withstand very arid conditions