What do you think? Can birds help combat the catastrophic impacts of climate chaos?

 

What do you think?

Can birds help combat the catastrophic impacts of  climate chaos?

YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

Birds do an incredible job of  helping to create new forests by eating tons of tree seeds. 

As they fly all over the forests the tree seeds in their poop is dropped on the forest  floor. 

And, the poop helps to fertilize the tree seeds as they sprout into saplings.

92% of woody plants are grown from the seeds dropped by birds in their poop! 

182 species are edible.

85 species are used for timber. 

153 species are medicinal  plants.

156 species are ornamental. 

A new study  published  in Forest Ecosystems  (20220 concluded large fruit-eating animals, including birds like toucans significantly help regenerate forests which are  giant traps for carbon, collectively, absorbing  as much as 30 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions, and store more than 1,600 gigatonnes of carbon in their soil. 

In the tropics, tall, hardwood species with dense, thick trunks are the best  carbon trappers but the seeds need to be dispersed.

Chestnut-mandibled toucans,  can easily eat guava-sized  fruits with their 18 cm beaks. 

 Horned guans will gobble up avocados, including the pits. 

Without the help of frugivores which are declining at an alarming rate there’d be no way for larger seeds  to grow into towering trees.

Instead, smaller seeds would sprout into low-carbon storage trees.

Eventually, the entire forest would be transformed.

horned guan

 

toucan