This impressive Canadian company is using drones to plant 1 billion trees

A Canuck startup company is taking its fight against climate change to new heights! Ha. For real though, what we’re about to tell you is kind of incredible. Every year, the planet loses an estimated 13 billion trees and as we’re sure you already know, we need those bad boys to breathe so you could say they’re kind of important. This is why Flash Forest, a Canadian organization, has launched a project that could see up to 1 billion trees planted by 2028.

Using shovels and bags, this would be impossible, but Flash Forest is using advanced technology first introduced in 2017 to change the game.

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“The timber industry has engineered and mastered efficient harvesting technologies, capable of quick clearing with minimal human involvement,” they write on their website. The outdated method of replanting has fallen way behind tearing them down, which really makes no sense.

Right now, you either, don’t care, have already stopped reading, or are like “it’s 2020, shouldn’t we be more advanced?” The answer is yeah, we should be! And Flash Forest agrees.

To plant a billion trees, they’re going to need science, and if Flash Forest has anything, it’s science. Using drones, aerial mapping, pneumatics, and automation, Flash Forest will be able to plant at around 100 times the normal rate of planting by hand and at 20% of the traditional tree planting cost. Impressive.

Now we’d love to say a Canadian company was the first to do this, but alas, they have actually begun using similar technology in the States and Australia. Either way, this could have a huge and positive impact on the future of our country and the future of our planet…  and we think that’s pretty cool.