How This Woman Has Restored Dry Desert Rivers Into Green Oasis Flowing With Water Forever!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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All you have to do is bring some beavers, they will do the job in a more effective way.
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As per previous comments... FOR GOODNESS SAKE... slow down the captions. They're there, then they're gone. Like many of your viewers I am older, and your presentation gives me a headache. Your work is so interesting and important, slow down to give all of us a chance to enjoy and learn. PLEASE
Carbon Cowboys, too!
Can you support our project, please?
What an amazing transformation. I lived in the Sonoran desert for 20 years and visited for 4 days, ending yesterday. Having watched Leaf of Life and similar channels, I imagined all along during my 1,200 mile round trip using these techniques on the innumerable dry washes and rivers I saw. What an amazing transformation.
It's great to see someone else who is inspired by the same things I am!
It would be great to see many more similar projects like this around the world.
Definitely more are popping up all the time, and here at Leaf of Life we are actively starting and supporting projects worldwide, check out our pin comment for more info on that if it interests you!
There are a ton in India. Look for permaculture and India
Edit: also the great green wall in Africa
Looks more like leaders are more interested in destroying and then making more money rebuilding.
@@DivigThere's a similar project in China, called the *Three-North Shelter Forest Program,* designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert and provide timber to the local population.
The program started in 1978 and recently finished a 3,000 kilometers green belt around the Taklamakan Desert.
We desperately need projects like this here in the south of Spain.
My college career has lead me to this very subject, I'm hoping to start a similar project wish me luck.
Hope your dreams become reality!
Good luck. God bless you.
We wish you all the best in your endeavors!
Please record your progress, even before starting. State your goals and your methods. All thebest🎉
@andanssas thank you and you got it. Keep an eye out for solar punk
Growing up in AZ, the Sonoran Desert has been close to my heart. You love to see this!
We live in this area of Baja during the winter. Nice to know good things are happening above La Ventana. Water is precious!
California (where I live) should do something like this on a massive scale. So many hills and mountains that this could be done on.
the state is spending too much money on the wrong things!
@@rollothompson6130 On LGBT bu ..s...t!
The people should do it, your parties in charge don't want to actually do anything as that'll interrupt the money scheme they run
Look up how much cali spends annually on climate change and tell me if its had any effect at all
Commyfornia would fight you tooth and nail to prevent this. That's the sad truth.
They should definitely slow down Rainwater run off in those LA storm water aqueducts and remove the concrete whenever possible to help groundwater aquifers
The constant quick flip of pics and videos really hurts the presentation of what the actual work is being done.
i hate misinformations
@Ouwtexthere are plenty of other channels that can give you FREE content 🤗
Hello, thank you for your suggestion, in this instance it would have been lovely to have been able to do that, but unfortunately it was quite a hard shoot, hiking 2 hours up stream in 35c heat, trying to get all the clips, drone shots and learn about the project all under a tight schedule, the we had a hard drive and laptop failure, so in the end these were the best clips and some of them quite short so they are cut this way. Next time hopefully it won't be so stressful so we can get more long steady shots. Thanks again.
@ I loved the information though! I like hearing about bringing life to dead areas.
@LeafofLifeWorld at least you provided an explanation
Thanks a lot to all working on such hope-inspiring projects and for sharing the knowledge.
Our pleasure!
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Seeing this inspires me even more as it ties so closely to my college studies. I’m about to begin a similar project-cheer me on!
Thoughts become reality, what you repeat, see or visualize has an impact, I wish for you an abundance of good in all endeavors. I would like to suggest you change now fail to something positive. Successful people never focus on negative words or actions or outcomes.
Please pursue that goal, I do not know if you are a believer or not; but I have no doubts that the creator will be in your side as long as you honestly try to help his creation. The Prophet PBUH once said: ``A prostitute had once been forgiven. She passed by a dog panting near a well. Thirst had nearly killed him, so she took off her sock, tied it to her veil, and drew up some water. Allah forgave her for that.''
Hahai no ka ua i ka ululu’au, “The rain follows the forest. Hawaiian proverb. Native peoples knew this long before modern science “learned it”. All respect, wonderful restoration project.
What a paradise Haiti could become
Haiti is not a desert. They just deforested their side of the island.
It could be more like its next door neighbor, with the right sort of gov't in place, maybe.
Yes! What that restoration lady said; do your own small restoration project, for your neighbourhood, for your survival, & everything you love. Watch UA-cam for free lessons on how. Collect seeds & clippings, dig ponds, move rocks, take a little time often, nurture nature, then enjoy as She nurtures you right back💚✌️✊️
There is a guy in Texas named Shaun Overton I'd like you to keep an eye on. He has a UA-cam channel and is starting from brand new land and building a desert forest. If you want to see it happen in real time, it's really interesting. He is building man made check dams and terra forming, and starting on the first stages of organic matter on the landscape. He has already had success and failures in working with nature. He recently acquired a type of bio mesh and will be using it soon, it will make a large impact on plant growth.
I've been following Shaun for about a year and a half now. I love how he is very honest about all the ups and downs of his project and his commitment to drive 9 hours from his home near Dallas to get to the site.
Indeed I do Watch Dustups. Thats an informative video series. Shawn acts as if he doesnt know much but he is clearly very smart
I wish Shau
@@johnmcnulty4425I wish Shaun could get help from Leaf of Life. What he is trying to do is what was done in this video. This property if very similar to this property before the improvement.
Leaky Weirs are working in Australia too. Peter Andrews builds them using logs, branches, rocks and rubble, and carves shallow gutters from behind the leaky weir out into the land on both sides. They cause excess water to spread out and hydrate the surrounding paddocks. I really like the gabion walls tho, they will probably get trees and reeds growing in them too.
Native tress planted near the stream/river banks will eventually create shade over some of the river. Hence, it can slow or lessen the evaporation of the surface water and keep the water cooler. In addition to creating more habitat for animals and plants.
This is awesome and fantastic. I formerly co-directed a hybrid education and citizen-fueled habitat restoration project, specifically with small remnants of Southern California coastal dunes, uplands, working in partnership with coastal wetlands restoration. I loved consulting with biologists and collaborating with state agencies as well as educational institutions and businesses. Our project was multi-faceted with multiple goals: education, community building, youth empowerment, and restoring rare coastal habitats - restoring the earth and ourselves all in the same. At the end of my 10 years with the project, we witnessed the return of a native species of butterfly that had been missing from the coastal dunes for 3 decades, and saw the return of various species of native birds and insects. I've been out of the field for several years, but these kinds of projects give me great joy and are close to my heart. We should be tending and restoring the earth everywhere. And though not directly related but an important side-note - along with desertification, we have infused our rivers and oceans and our own bodies, with plastics, and we must strive for solutions and reduce plastics and chemicals in our environments.
There’s a guy in Australia who did the same thing, he started by placing his cattle and there hay in different parts of the land and imported donkeys for the hillsides, 20 years later and 50 out of the 170 acres he owns is green and ponds and waterways are all alive again.
I would love to find out more about this. Do you have any more information so that I can search for more details?
@ if you go to abc tv Australia there is a show called Australian story. The family is originally from South Africa.
@@Yoamo-Sabine I believe Peter Andrews is the name of the guy. may farmers in Australia are starting to follow these methods.
@@raclark2730 thank you 🙏😊
@@Yoamo-Sabine His book is ""Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape can be Saved"
Shaun Overton is trying to do something similar at Dustups Ranch in Texas. His property is a mile or so from a barren mountain that's on government land. It would be nice if Congress or any of the cabinet level departments would try to improve the geography & rainfall of the US by tree planting, which China does. The US will continue to fall behind if we don't focus on better things.
The US government commissions the planting of millions of trees. In developed countries, the tree count increases every year.
@@paladintrueknight I hope so
We both said the same guy lol glad others already know him
I just came across his channel today
Hello fellow Dustups subscribers
This is the best water conservation work I have ever seen….governments around the world will pick this up big time
So simple, yet we all could do this small scale in flash prone areas and change the whole landscape :)
The Great Green Wall in Senegal and World Food Program in Niger, and Ecosia in Kenya & Madagascar all help dig crescent trenches in Africa that become food forests. The WFP program helped 500,000 people grow their own food and get off assistance. Villages in Senegal are willing to stop grazing their goats so much and protect tree farms, but the gov runs out of funding. The US Defense Dept says climate change is the #1 enemy, but State Department declares other nations enemies instead of doing this critical work with their trillions.
Wow, absolutely amazing!! Love all of your videos! 🌎
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Another great project utilizing the principles of perma-culture developed by Bill Molison back in the early 1970's, with the use of Terracing, swales, Bunds & trenches etc. many other ways to collect water in the ground, to develop planting to safe guard the earth and develop sustainable ecosystems. The chinese have used the same systems to green several deserts, along with projects in various parts of Africa. so good to see that humans are learning to work with Nature, but a pity Bill Mollison doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
I think this part of why the world needs global communism, an ecologically centred communism.
Thank you for your feedback just to note all those ideas were used long before the 70s, its good permaculture made it trendy again though
Water when behind gabions is percolating like coffee. Fast in the beginning and slow at the end but still going on. Slow motion like nature does it everywhere . I love the idea of percolating and that’s what water is doing anywhere. Nature works silently for the benefits of all. No fast talking but action everywhere.
I just loved the documentary. Imagine now that thousands of villageois (French word for village people) start working in order towards the same goal . That’s what is happening in India (Maharastra) and showed by Pani Foundation . Large scale on stage. What if no more deserts in America ?
Appreciate you showcasing this great work
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Lovely work. Hands down to everyone making this possible!🎉
I was taught this in high school in the 80's back in Africa, and we went out in the field, used stones to build a wall, and more frequently. Your walls are better, taller, thanks to the wire type chain link fence structure. Apply what you have.
Wild fires in California, that is the result of human intervention, prevent or kill fires. Result is excessive forest floor build up thanks to no frequent fire that did not kill trees. Now big fire kill trees, need fir breaks and forest clearing.
Trees are awesome, we need more of them.
Amen to that
Yes, and we need a lot of area with old trees, which helps ecosystems. We need large areas without lodging, so nature can recover in new terrains. Everyone will benefit from this, even farmers and lodgers.
@@jrnhelgemagnussen9579 Mistakes of the past are starting to be learned from. Farmers here in Australia are re planting native vegetation on a massive scale.
If only we all would have a focus on this and other POSITIVE things rather than WAR.
Gabions or rockdams can benefit from swales , on contour, sloped away from the drainage, and towards a ridgeline. This increases the storage capacity.
Instead of overflowing the dam, excess water can flow off in the swale.
Here in the Netherlands we have both retention and drainage projects and the emphasis has been shifting more and more to retention especially in the east and south of the country where the ground is more sandy than the peetbogs of the rest of the country and it has greatly lessened the damage of the last great flood of the Maas-river. There was still a lot of damage but nothing as bad as in Belgium and Germany. Where some of the streams and rivers feeding the Maas caused terrible tragedies in Germany a village was heavily damaged and most people were traumatized and there were quite some deaths because they had no precautions, while the Dutch government had warned people days ahead. In Belgium a hydrodam in the Ardenne nearly burst and would've wiped out an entire valley, where all villages were flooded for weeks and help took a long time to come due bureaucratic fights between the different layers of government. The Netherlands has long pushed surrounding countries and France and Luxemburg to clean up their water and work on their floodprevention along the big rivers so it doesn't dump all the pollution and excess water in our tiny country where these rivers meet the sea. It's what saved our butts multiple times and it's also where our bread is buttered with expertise nowadays.
Florence you are amazing, a true life Hero. this work just shows how our world heals, God bless you.
Nice to see a real celebrities get recognized 💚. I say such becauze we reap the rewards, the ausomest award is a healthy home. So Ausome...thanx much 🌎🤗
Beautiful video, one of the best I've seen.
We appreciate your kind words!
Your videos are really improving. This was a great one.
Genius on effecting the micro-climate!
This is really good stuff. We live on the only mountain in south Portugal. it still has many trees however we constantly get sprayed whenever rain or clouds are forecast and whatever it is they are spraying doesn't allow the clouds to form and hence no rain. this is a huge battle we are fighting. the authorities tell us the spraying is actually to combat climate change. when its quite obvious the opposite is happening.
Thé US denies doing this but it’s getting obvious because it never rains during the week, on holidays, or during rush hour it seems.
What do you mean by sprayed?
@@edgarmontelongo5981 some jets fly back and forth over the mountain spraying something, i dont know it looks like white powder. We all made a petition and complained. The only feedback we've had is that the E.U says its to combat climate change. How preventing clouds from forming is preventing climate change is anions guess. For us farmers its a crime against us and nature.
@@andreafong9952 wow yes, its started here in 2012 and was only on weekends back then. I was a surf coach and had no idea what the heck was going on. Only in 2016 did i realise or care what was going on and its no easy to see its to stop it raining.
@ A lot of people don’t seem to notice or don’t say anything about it but it is so disturbing to me I can’t stay quiet.
🌟May 2025 be an incredible year, full of achievements, health, and happiness! Thank you for sharing amazing content that continues to inspire us all!🥂✨
All the other months as well.
Great video, amazing to see how simply slowing the rate at which water flows can have such wide ranging benefits. I’ve seen videos on similar schemes in Africa and India recently
Lots if negative comments, sorry about that.
I enjoyed this one! Very good stuff, thanks for yet another great video!
Thank you so much for your kind words!
If we can do this than there is nothing stopping us from terraforming dessert land back into viable greenlands
Depends on what kind of desert. If the area has no elevation to create waterflow or if rains are extremely rare (like no rain for more than a year) - those methods would not really work.
@ it would still be possible though. Even if you start at the edge where there is vegetation
It was a shower of blessings. You make great videos
Thank you, we love creating videos that inspire!
This is amazing! Keep up the good work!
Well done. The great green wall across the Sahara is similar - digging half moon ditches that fill with water (you just need a spade) so water collects and ancient have done this for years of course too. It is one reason I am quite glad my lawn which is very large is in large part moss - (in very very wet UK) as it collects water better than mere grass. Moss is very clever stuff. In WWI it was even used to push into wounds, used by nurses.
👏awesome work 👍
This is outstanding. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am going to look into this deeper so il can help restore the dessert in Arizona
Thank you for this encouraging video. It's good to see simple, low tech solutions that work with nature. I loved the rainfall at the end - an unexpected bonus. I'm from the UK so we won't be using Gabions here but we could do with understanding and restoring natural environments more. I'm worn out with all the bad news in the world and seeing this really cheered me up. There's hope for humanity yet!
How comes you wouldn't use gabion in the UK? I think they are good for erosion control from flooding too, doesn't the UK get alot of flooding, anyway thanks alot for your feedback, all the best!
@LeafofLifeWorld I'm not qualified to really answer your question. However, I'll make a few comments.
1. There are areas where coastal erosion is a concern here but gabions aren't designed for this.
2. I've heard of topsoil erosion when farming becomes too intense or vegetation is cut back.
3. Yes, we do have floods due to heavy rain and there are complaints about blocked drains or poorly maintained defences.
4. Concreting over areas that previously allowed natural drainage can be a problem.
5. Maybe there are some places where gabions could be used to slow water down. Beavers were used to do this on the river Otter.
I'm a great fan of working with nature and low tech solutions so love the gabion idea. Thanks again for the video.
@@LeafofLifeWorld We only use them in gardens really, we have other ways to prevent flooding and erosion, like using Beach Replenishment (just topping up lost sand and material on beaches with other sediments like wood, rocks, sand, and other minerals), using Groynes (slows down Longshore Drift), Rock Revertments , Rock Breakwater, and Sea walls (all these three limit the wave energy and prevent erosion). Coastal erosion and flooding is our main issue. We also have started bringing back the Beaver too so I imagine that will see some changes. Brighton has Groynes, Weston-super-Mare has sea walls, groynes, sand dunes, etc... as they have the second largest tidal range in the world, Lydd and Romney Marsh recently got new sea defences, though I can't recall what off the top of my head but they cost like £40m
This is awesome! I love this kind of stuff!
Thank you forthis brining this project to light. This is a modified permaculture and African Sand dams. It isa goodto to expand the concept of trees helping engage rain. Have watched these techniques applied in many parts oftheI world.
Appreciate this scaled up project to demonstrate once again we have the answers.
The Gabion is a simple principle in nature of how ice flow builds up rocks and sediments to trap water creating massive lakes which eventually ruptured. On a small scale no problem. On a large scale, ticking time bomb. Also, several north and south native American people had the same principle in the archeological sites. Slowly trapping moisture creating humidity which when added to what nature provides naturally contributes to more moisture and rain
I would love to see this in areas like Twentynine Palms and Palm springs, it is so needed!
Спасибо большое,очень вдохновляет. Я тоже давно хочу на родине в засушливых районах сделать нечто подобное и научить соседей оживлять землю.
Can you show this video to a group of them? And let us all know how it progresses?
@ Я в данный момент нахожусь в трудовой миграции в другой стране. Когда был в отпуске на родине всем рассказывал про пермакультуру , органическое земледелие, людям было очень интересно.
God bless and prayers to all members of the team 🙏🙏🙏♥️❤❤🇵🇭💯. Love from the Philippines 🙏
Such a simple concept and something anyone can do on similar land that they own or manage.
Inspirational video Leaf of Life gives us hope for the future of our planet ❤❤❤
Fantastic work of nurturing nature. 👍❤️✌️
thank you for sharing. :)
You're welcome!
A really very good & informative video, thankyou. For sure the principles of this could be used in two Mexican states that I have visited & am familiar with, Jalisco & Puebla.
Yes, it would be amazing to see this technology applied in more arid regions!
Sharing the video with people from those areas could help a ton couldn’t it?
Amaaaaaaazingly good video!!
Not to mention, the possible chance to allow jaguars to repopulate the region overtime.
Yes thats all part of it!
Love and greetings from Germany
Greatest job.
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Thank you! Cheers!
I'm pleased to get this video.
Wow! This gives me me hope for the future... i live in N.M. where don't get enough rainwater; or should I say enough conservation of our rainwater.
Loved this report!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, I think this can inspire all of us to do better with water conservation
GOOD WORK
Good engineering design for preserving the desert 🏜️ and looking 👀 natural green
I wonder if this practice might help fire prone areas to re-green areas.
I'm pretty sure it can!
Absolutely beautiful.
Perfect!
Love seeing it this is why man was created to run the garden of paradise with the knowledge and the work put in amazing things can be done
Powerful message everyone needs to hear.
A wonderful project! We need people like this to come and rescue the water courses in southern Spain where I live. The situation here is terrible due to deforestation of catchment areas, canalisation, etc, and it seems that nobody is waking up to the problem.
Very inspiring! ❤
Wonderful to see this great work. How long ago were the gabions put into this valley do you know? Will share.
Its been over a period of time, they have been installed in several valleys on this project over 10 years, 3000 gabion over 17000 hectares
Thank you!
I really enjoyed watching this video.
Amazing. I wish you could tell us more about such a beautiful long run project
We have a four-part series on this project, go check it out!
@LeafofLifeWorld How did I miss it....thank you I will check it out
Okay, so the solution is to just slow down the waterflow, so more of it stays in the area for longer.
But the part about trees being "rain antennas" is surprising. But it is also makes sense, since for a rain to occur the water vapor needs to condense on something.
Nature is truly genius.
Very commendable.
Thank you. happy new year.
Good job. You would think that more of this would be completed in these areas. The life and conservation would go hand in hand and be absolutely fantastic to recover desert into green lands and conserve water.
Can yhis be done on a larger scale? Or can the concrete "river beds" be modified to lessian the evaporation? Especially for those states experiencing droughts like california
Awesome!
11:12 Scientist have NOT just discovered that! This is common knowledge. This is why they were against cutting dish trees in the Rain Forest; because the trees casted it to rain, that's why it's called a "Rain" Forest!
Please watch Agees project about Laguna Salada! When you notice it’s the western edge of this desert, and its evaporation rate is among the highest in the world… you understand that when Laguna Salada is flooded, precipitation in the Colorado River watershed is boosted 15%!
Great job
Seen in Australia with just pushing logs into the flow of water. That’s it. Make the water slow down and trickle into the soil.
Then nature goes yippee! Easy!
Plant the rain!
She is GREAT
Amazing work!!! Wow!
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작은 도끼 하나를 배낭에 넣고 다니면서 작은 댐을 만들어요..
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🎵🎵🎵And rivers in the desert will we see 🎵🎵🎵 ❤❤❤
How come CERN has only recently come discovered this idea of trees capturing the droplets of rain when my childhood books reflect this exact same circuit of rain cycle?
The water cycle is in the existing books what is not known about until recently is how trees attract rain through particle that help to condenstation into rain
The landscape reminded me of Morocco which is very mountainous. The idea of making small dams is being applied even in UK to reduce winter flooding downstream.
If you like the idea of this there is a channel called Shaun Overton Dustups that’s doing this in the chihuahuan desert in Texas. Obviously though he’s doing on a much smaller scale but it’s a great watch!
Amazing well done .
Very very good
Peru needs this.
Trying to do this in senegal❤thanks for the ideas
Amazing 😊
Super!👍👏👍
Felicitări😂😂😂
Love the concepts. It’s called weather warfare. It’s not climate change. Appreciate your work. Very productive!
It's not weather warfare.
Grow up.
Weather has been changing since the ice age