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  Thumbs Way Up to Flash Forest The inventors at Flash Forest a Canadian company figured out a way to retrofit paintball machine guns onto drones They created tiny tree seed pods with nutrients and pre-germinated tree seeds which they can shoot out one per second as they send the drones fly over wasteland in need of restoration. In the fall of 2022, the Canadain governmnt whose aim is to plant 2 billion trees in the next 10 years has hired Flash Forest to help out by awarding them a contract of 1.3 milion to plant at least 1 million trees in the next 2 years using their aerial mapping software and drones to embed the seed pods on the forest floor.

    THE BENEFITS OF BIRDS- PEST CONTROL E very year trees are attacked by billions of insects!   Scientists tell us that birds eat ar PEST CONTROL-COFFEE BORER AND BIRDS Coffee berry borers are tiny insects that spend their entire life cycle inside   coffee beans in Jamaican coffee plantations.                                                                                                               Coffee farmers may lose 20% of their crops due to this infestation.                                                                            Luckily,  the black-throated blue warblers will feast on borers.It has been  calculated the birds’ pest-control value at $125 per acre. To protect and enhance the food sources and habitats of the warblers the Jamaican forestry officials plan  to plant indigenous shade trees like mahogany and almond trees. ound 500 million of tons of insects including 15 million larva every year! These larvae could potentially destroy countless