Maxime Persdotter Wallström
Publicerad 2019-08-03
Many thanks to Pauline and Joe from the BBC World Service and everyone else who helped so much with this very fun documentary shoot about our work helping reseed Kenya's forests!
Seedballs Kenya will feature in the BBC series Taking the Temperature, which focuses on the battle against climate change and the people and ideas making a difference.
Seedballs Kenya will feature in the German programme about reforestation in Kenya.
Many many thanks to Deutsche Welle TV for this very fun short documentary on how to plant trees using a slingshot!
Saturday December 9 2017 By PAULINE KAIRU
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Kenyan schoolchildren using slingshots to plant trees
Nairobi: Schoolchildren in Kenya are helping to fight deforestation by planting seeds using slingshots. It’s part of an initiative by the company SeedBalls Kenya, which makes and sells seedballs globally. It encourages children to have slingshot competitions using the charcoal-covered seeds instead of stones. About 2 million seedballs have been planted in Kenya in the past year and a half in what has been called “guerrilla gardening.” Kenya’s government has recognised the threat from deforestation and earlier this year imposed a temporary logging ban that was extended in May by another six months. AP
Seedball dispersal products designed by ISK STEM Engineering Students
In October 2018, the DSWT launched a new project aimed at inspiring school children to start planting trees. The two-pronged approach involved a large-scale seed-balling initiative in Chyulu Hills National Park (CHNP) and a tree planting competition involving 731 school children from 4 different schools also bordering CHNP.
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Seedballs Kenya featuring in the CNN African Voices Changemakers series.
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Kenya’s forest cover is below 10% but efforts are being steered to reach that mark. But by the pace at which conventional tree planting takes place, perhaps it will take years to reach that level.
So how does seedballs technology work? Follow us as we unravel the science behind this worthy cause.
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Drones, dogs, ‘cocoons’ – it’s a new age for tree planting
A look at the technologies changing the way tree seeds are planted
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Climate change poses an existential threat to earthly civilization. Many solutions would require a dramatic overhaul of the existing structures of our society, so many organizations focus on the regulation of carbon emissions, reforestation of devastated natural areas, and encouragement of biodiversity as an opportunity to address the needs of the earth. This list, in no particular order, shares some groups fighting for a greener planet.
Trees were felled en masse by colonial administrators to fuel a train across East Africa, while land today is cleared for agriculture and charcoal production as Kenya's population grows upward and outward.
The simple 'seedballs' giving Kenya's forests a helping hand
The black marble-sized pellet is a single tree seed coated in a charcoal shell
Seedballs: an innovative way to restore drylands
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