Planting Great Green Walls in an attempt to restore dry land has become a continental effort, led by governments and NGOs in both Africa and China. Now India has ambitious plans to do the same. But planting and sustaining millions of trees in water scare locations is a huge and complicated undertaking. To regenerate plant life at scale, what can India do differently? #PlanetA #GreatGreenWall #desertification Credits: Reporter: Amelia Martyn-Hemphill Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Michael Trobridge Video Editor: Markus Mörtz Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Interviewees: Neelam Ahluwalia, Aravalli Bachao Citizens Movement Chetan Aggarwal, environmental analyst Joseph Faluyi, COO and Executive Director of the Great Green Wall of Africa Foundation George Taylor, desertification expert, University of Colorado Latika Thukral, I am Gurgaon Read more: https://science.thewire.in/environment/abandon-the-idea-of-great-green-walls/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/19/the-great-oasis https://www.outdoorjournal.com/in/uncategorized/aravalli-forest-range-degraded-zone-india/ https://aravallibachao.wordpress.com/ https://www.iamgurgaon.org/ https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1910745 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-green-wall-stop-desertification-not-so-much-180960171/ Chapters: 00:00 Intro 0:48 The advancing Thar desert 1:43 Causes of land degradation in India 4:00 India’s Great Green Wall 4:28 Examples from Africa and China 6:23 Is this a good idea for India? 8.55 Citizen movements achieving success 10:42 What needs to be done to save the Aravallis?