Article 31119 Clear-cut tropical forest revitalized with industrial orange peel waste

Clear-cut tropical forest revitalized with industrial orange peel waste

by
Andrea James
from on (#31119)

restoration-ecology-treuer.jpg

In 1997, ecologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs convinced a Costa Rican orange juice maker to to dump their waste peels in a clear-cut abandoned pasture that was in a national park. Twenty years later, the enriched soil nourishes tropical forest again, according to a new report. (more")

TA3nTIDfuoQ
External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag
Feed Title
Feed Link http://feeds.boingboing.net/
Reply 0 comments