Study: Bison herd removes more carbon than world’s largest CO2 capture plant
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- A herd of bison in Romania might actually be better for the planet than the world’s largest carbon capture facility, according to recent findings by scientists at the Yale School of the Environment. Over 200 years ago, these animals roamed across what is now present-day Romania, playing a crucial role in the ecosystem before they went extinct in the region.
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Imagine what the US herd of bison in the 1800's did. 30 to 60 million of them.
This is similar to why they're trying to bring back the wooly mammoth, their grazing ability with those massive legs preserved the permafrost by packing it down into the earth.
Much of the West has been farmed with fossil water from the Ogalala aquifer. It is now running out. When it is gone they will either have to gro something far less thirsty than corn and alfalfa, or let it go back to grass and run bison again. I vote for bison. hard to keep them from getting into towns and onto highways though.
CO2 wasn't an issue then. Maybe they depleted it?
This doesn't even account for the increased sequestration you'd get by restoring native prairie grasses the bison live on, which have carbon-storing root systems that extend 30 feet underground.
And more plus mega fauna during the ice age ...totalling to trillions of herd animals
Yet they try and tell us cow farts are ending the planet
We've been using a "rotational grazing" plan for decades. The last thing you want to do is stress your pasture with overgrazing, especially when dry. This technique mimics the nomadic/migratory grazing habits of other ungulates(hoofed)/ruminants (cud chewers like cows, deer, goats). Cheers from Alberta, Canada.
And this differs from herd impact from cattle in what way???
Bison aren’t sedentary grazers. They keep moving more often than cows, and as an Alberta’s I have seen all kinds of grazing from all kinds of grazers. Also the bison are huge component of the ecosystem in North America, so their numbers being reduced to what they are at is honestly criminal, they literally create new habitat just by existing in the landscape and it is a beautiful thing to see in motion.
If Bison have this kind of impact then cattle herds would too. The way bison interact with their environment is little different from the way cattle do, aside from cattle herds being confined to a more limited range.
Just like In the americas, bison are native, so require less inputs (nutrition and meds -in general). But yes, cows could do the same thing if allowed to graze and rotated appropriately.
The way cattle are raised in high density food lots is not beneficial to the environment.
Unfortunately its still a net negative because it takes an acre of grain to feed a cow. If cows were allowed to just run free and be wild, sure, they'd have a similar effect to buffalo. But they'd only be capturing carbon on the actual grounds of the ranch in any case, not the ground in general. Of course wild cows would be unlikely to survive because they've been domesticated since before recorded history. They don't exactly have wilderness survival skills.
Not true, bison are still a wild animal and have strong self preservation skills. Dairy cows have been domesticated for so long that they'd die quickly without supervision.
@@aaviolante Cattle are NOT raised in feed lots! They are fattened up there for a short time. They don't spend 3 years in a feed lot.
@@xc8487 There was a herd of cattle that got loose in I think NM and evaded helicopter searches for three years or so! ( Beef cattle I'm sure.)
They didn’t go extinct, they were annihilated!
This is not new news. Just that someone is actually listening this one time. See savory institute. Cows too if managed to mimic same grazing patterns - multi-paddock grazing. Including their methane which was mentioned as "emissions". More productive too i.e more animals per acre.
Correct. ❤
100% true
It's not compaction though. It's thru root death and regrowth when pasture is grazed..
The point is faster carbon requestrationt and its important to avoid overgrazing so the forage recovers faster.
If properly grazed an acre it will produce more biomass per year than thru conventional rotational grazing methods.
Biodiversity is important, moving livestock as soon as it gets nipped within 7 inches of the ground, or topped halfway, whichever comes first.
Heavy stocking numbers are important too, per the size of the paddock. Moving livestock may mean more than one move a day.
Tractor tires company the earth too, and its a problem.
Animal agriculture is a huge problem. Animals should be free and wild!
@@jennifershanks453
Actually mob grazing/holistic grazing mimics natural grazing patterns. It's much better for people, livestock, soils, etc. Wild herds can be problematic to those with cultivated crops.
There's been a lot of talk about fossil fuels, but as a biologist I have long had a suspicion that habitat destruction and over-harvesting (including over-hunting) has had a much greater impact on climate and environment (air quality etc) than most people realize.
The impact of plowed fields is significant. But nobody wants to talk about it.
Cows can do the same thing, we just need to rotate there pastures properly. Its not even hard
Cows fart too much
@@user-qr7ee2cp4ybecause of the grains the factory farms feee them. They fart say less when eating grass
@@PhaseSkater I always love it when people like you start talking proving you don't know what you're talking about. You act like cattle are fed massive piles of corn every day of their life when in fact almost every cow spends the vast majority of its life out on open pastures they only go to feed Lots the last few weeks you naive fool! And clearly you've never been around bison because They're the same as cows any animal with a Ford chambered stomach farts and burps a lot that's just the way they work.
@user-qr7ee2cp4y No more than buffalo. You know they can even mate with cattle.
@@user-qr7ee2cp4ybisons fart even more than cows lol
Also, bison, being ruminants (like cows), "up-cycle" plants that are not consumable by humans (weeds & grasses) into delicious meat when we choose to eat them.
Why are thier findings not peer reviewed yet? Lets go people!
Because big corporations and big agriculture make more money by confining animals into the smallest spaces to live, eat, suffer & die. There’s too much money to be lost if peer reviewed, sadly. It’s actually criminal how the government suppresses this.
This has absolutely NO relation to raising large number of beef cattle in confined areas the way we do now.
Lol ofc not!
You obviously have no real knowledge of how cattle are raised. Cows in confined areas are feed lots where cattle finished for a few weeks right before slaughter.
@@shawncollins656 you’re saying as if that’s how they’re all raised and as if we can’t change instances where they aren’t
@@yoeyyoey8937 yes, I can say with confidence, that is exactly how the majority of beef cattle are raised.
@@shawncollins656 oh you mean like they are pasture raised and then “grain finished”?
This does not fit the narrative, so it will never be played by the main stream.
Probably because it's bisonshit.
China, for one, has been introducing grazing animals to reverse desertification.
How so? Which environmentalist would not want to restore an animal species for its own sake? And which would suddenly refuse to do so because it would also help solve some problems? Do you think environmentalists are out to get companies? That its not about protecting our ability to survive on this planet, but rather some inane hatred of businessmen?
@@havable
Environmentalists who aren't based in science, that's who. Environmentalists who base their beliefs on emotion or political ideologies will be the ones who will refuse to listen to anything that deviate from their own core beliefs. For example, vegans, who believe that meat eating is wrong, will stop the incentives to farm meat sources, no matter how beneficial to the environment. They'll cloak themselves in the environmentalist garb and deny any value to proper animal husbandry. They also tend to be radical socialists and hate the idea of farming for profit. There are also people who will call themselves environmentalists but they only see the environment as one that is devoid of humans or their activities.
How are we to distinguish the person who wants the best for environment from those who have their own take on what a clean environment should be.
@@havable This has nothing to do with carbon taxes. That is the scam which is being implemented on people around the world. No one actually believes carbon taxes will force people to not heat their homes, unless in a totalitarian or fascist state
So if bison can perform carbon capture could not cattle perform the same function?
They can (or rather, the pasture can) if managed in the right way, i.e. something similar to what happens in nature
They do and are
OK. this dude mis-read the paper. the bison don’t stamp down the soil. they instead break up the surface of the solid. this allow more water to penetrate the soil. and they knock down the grass. this allows the plants to decompose into the soil, instead of oxidizing slowing in the upright position. so carbon goes into the soils thru compositing, root growth, stimulating new grass growth each year. the urine/feces is important as well.
Full praise to expand the study. While shame, wildfires, fossil fuel burning, illegal logging is allowed to run rampant. While afforestation efforts a virtually non existent.
Exactly what Pleistocene Park is trying to do in Siberia. We need these herds again worldwide. Support these parks, help the owners get these animals there, help bring back the original biome's
Exactly.They get a lot of publicity from their mammoth cloning project, but a bigger part of what they do is repopulating the tundra with existing species like bison, wild horses,musk oxen and saiga antelope.
they may remove co2 but they releases ch4....is there a study for that?
So, cows are good for the earth too.
If they are allowed to free graze. Not in feedlots.
Actually they produce less methane while in the feedlots than free ranging. Plus 98% of beef cattle come from family farms with generally less than 100 cattle on them and even when they are in the feedlots the cattle have more room to move than any other animal production.@@lenm3141
If they are freerange, yes.
This video probably would have been censored if they mentioned cows could be a good thing for nature.
Only if they tap dance
If anything was explained, it went over my head. The numbers sound unreal to me as well, but it would be good news, if true.
Can Canada PLEASE make a concerted effort to re-establish innumerable herds of bison across the prairies?
Wild bison is nutritious, easily managed.
An entire industry could emerge of wild bison hunters, butchers and transport. We could replace cattle factory farms within a generation.
Not only would turning farmland into ranching land be healthier for the planet, it would also be healthier for human diets.
Where would seed oils, high fructose corn syrup, enriched flour and refined sugar come from?😊
I wouldn't believe Yale if they told me the colour of Oranges.
Truly a sign of the times. So much credibility lost across so many institutions.
Interesting concept.
* And, look at how pristine and beautiful the environment is where these animals live.
I noticed there was an omission of the methane they produce.
there were as many wild bison as there are domesticated cows now, so why is methane only a problem now but not in the past? methane is totally overlapped by water vapour on the infrared absorption spectrum and it is several orders of magnitude smaller in concentration so has no warming effect.
@@littlefish9305 cows are not the problem, it's what we feed them, in the wild what they eat cause drastically less gas production than when they eat grain
@@Niendorf_an_der_Stecknitz i think you have it backwards. there are many articles and studies showing that feeding grains rather than grass/hay lowers methane from the cow.
all living things produce C02
@@littlefish9305
There are many studies that show that cattle on grass need fewer artifices to support them than cattle on grain, that means desirable ag methods mean fewer synthetic chemical inputs including fewer medicines, dewormers, supplements, shipped feed, fertilizer for monocropped grain field, vet visits, livestock losses, manure management, buildings for feed, heavy equipment, irrigation and electricity, fuel, etc. That's one way livestock on pasture "reduces" the carbon footprint.
Another point is that good grazing technique avoids overgrazing. Overgrazing offsets several greenhouse grasses because of better nitrogen and carbon fixation than grainfields, or grass hay. There is also the consideration of forbs, (wide leaf plants), and browse (edible parts of woody plants). Often the edible green bits of trees and forbs have less insoluble fibre making them easier to digest by chewing instead of fermentation.
Well-managed livestock on diverse pasture they are less prone to overheating, and harsh weather, they avoid the need for outbuildings, because this method needs fewer synthetic chemical inputs because avoiding overgrazing via holistic-grazing/mobgrazing means more carbon sequestration, more soil fertility, more water sequestration, fewer sinkholes, less electrical usage, healthier livestock, more nutrient-dense food, etc.
It's best to use livestock that fatten best on pasture, as opposed to those that fatten best on grain. It improves efficiency. Products from livestock fed on diverse pasture are tastier, healthier, have more positive environmental impacts etc than those raised with conventional agricultural methods, etc.
Co2 is not a problem our governments are the problem
Are they saying that paying the outrageous fuel tax isn’t saving the planet like they told us it would?!
We need beavers, too, to restore the flow and retention of water out West..
This could make the bision eligible for compensation payed for by carbon credits. If bison are helping reduce the humans waste footprint they deserve to be treated like employees. Congress should get off it but and pass the bison civil rights act.
#1 CO2 is not pollution
#2 the CO2 molecules emitted by ruminant animals in the form of methane (which breaks down in 8 years) were originally in the grass created through photosynthesis. After being emitted by ruminant animals then broken down, those carbon molecules end up taken back in by the grass-and the trees and all plants. It’s a natural cycle and the ruminant animals are not “adding” greenhouse gases” to anything. Furthermore, only 0.00042% of the atmosphere is CO2 which is not enough to trap anything. So just think of the massive hoax all this is and they are threatening to end all animal agriculture. And then what of the gazillions of hoofed animals roaming the prairies and grasslands of the planet?
A key word here is ROAMING. Another key is concentration of large numbers in one place vs free ranging.
But who are "they"? The ones "threatening to end all animal ag"? Calm down! You know that will not happen, and this is a discussion of that STUDY of carbon cycle and ruminants/grazers.
Calling Co2 pollution is a way of talking about it. The facts are that levels are ironically enough snowballing down a snowy slope and getting huge, and causing real, observable problems.
*Did you know that plants run out of the enzyme needed to make photosynthesis happen when the temperature is too hot, for example?*
I dont understand. I must not know enough. By what mechanism is this working? The only way I can see soil compaction working to reduce CO2 emissions is if the gas is present in the loose soil, diffusing to the atmosphere constantly, with the soil compaction locking it in. Is this what is happening?
explain your dismay, meaning we don't have to shut down the American economy to solve "climate change". "Climate change" which is a hoax.
Thank you so much for bringing up some intelligent questions! I was getting disgusted by the comments insisting that CO2 is good for us all and other simplistic overgeneralizations!
And what about methan?
Does this counter the methane released by them, which is worse than Co2?
You can't tax the bison, though.
Gorgeous beasts 💪🏽🦬
And how does compacting the ground capture co2? Would've been nice to touch on that. I seriously doubt one small herd could capture 54,000 tons. No freaking way.
It's not about compacting. Earthworms (and microorganisms) can't reach standing gras. But if it is trampled into the soil, they can.
Earthworms and such are biomass, binding CO2.
The way it works is both plant roots and other soil biota chemically react and bond carbon particles to soil particles. The act of grazing kills deeper roots. It's important to avoid overgrazing because solarization dries the soil as well as kill roots and delicate soil life. Preventing overgrazing is key.
Mob grazing is a great way to fertilize, manage grasses, forbs and browse (forbs are wide-leaved plants, browse is the edible bits of woody plants). Mob grazing makes sure that enough plant matter is left to protect soil from overdrying, and root die off. This allows green matter (biomass) to recover faster. Grazing by heavy stocking (heavy stocking means lots of animals in a small area) and frequent moving (sometimes moving them more than once daily to tall, recovered pasture) means more biomass per acre, per year.
A great byproduct of holistic/mob grazing 8s more nutritious products, including meats dairy and eggs, as well as any areas simultaneously grazed and used for growing vegetative crops for food. Interplanting trees shrubs and woody vines in alleycropping systems means you get the benefits of mycelium too. Mycelium moves moisture and nutrients around so that fertility is enhanced in a better way than with shallow-rooted, monocultured ag systems...
@@andreasherzog2222 0:32 "these large animals also compact the soil beneath them and *that's where the planet protecting power comes from"*
@@b_uppy I can appreciate the effort you put into your answer however it did not address my question about the videos claim.
0:32 "these large animals also compact the soil beneath them and that's where the planet protecting power comes from"
Compaction is actually a problem.
HERDS WILL positively affect carbon sequestration WHEN MANAGED CORRECTLY.
It's a mistake to think compaction sequesters carbon because compaction actually discourages plant roots from spreading, as well as inhibit groundwater recharge.
It's the plant grazing CYCLES caused by optimal grazing (very different from overgrazing) that build up carbon.
When animals graze evenly (without nipping the grass too short), it kills off some the roots, but also leaves plenty of living roots so the grass regrows/recovers quickly. The faster plants recover above ground, the sooner plants are well recovered above ground, the sooner livestock can be brought back in and stimulate a new carbon sequestration cycle.
Those roots of the nipped off plants decompose into soil nutrients including carbon that the soil biome uses to create glue-y bits that creates a crumbly, soil that both drains fast, but also retains moisture and clings to roots (when there is a diverse plant biome).
This biome is ideally a savanna, which is the biggest producer of biomass, which means it has the greatest carbon sequestration capability/ability when paired with mob grazing.
Another thing you need to know is that diversity of plants is important for optimum fertility. Trees encourage mycelium which moves nutrients and moisture to trees. Some plants fix nitrogen which is a fertilizer, while other plants gather other nutrients from the air, (it's not all roots that are harvesting nutrients).
One if the benefits of carbon sequestration into topsoil is that it unlocks/opens water-insoluble nutrients , making them water soluble and now usable to plants.
Compaction leads to flooding, ground subsidence, drought, sinking watertables, sinkholes, etc.
This study was likely paid for by big ag, that wants to keep selling synthetic chemical inputs, heavy equipment, CAFO buildings, etc...
Carbon-based life forms thinking carbon is "evil". That's some serious self-hatred.
We're more water than anything else yet we can drown. And that isn't self-hate. Its just living in the real world.
@@havable No, it's living in a doomsday cult. They just want you afraid so they can control and exploit you through fear. Disaster capitalism.
I thought cars exhaust carbon monoxide, NOT carbon dioxide. Animals, including humans, exhaust carbon dioxide. Plants take that, process it and exhaust oxygen back into the atmosphere for animals to use. Carbon dioxide is very much needed for the system to work.
Cars produce mostly carbon dioxide and water as emissions. But they also produce carbon monoxide and NOx as well as other bigger hydrocarbons like methane due to incomplete combustion. Though they produce them in smaller quantities than carbon dioxide. That's why cars have to have catalytic converters to reduce carbon monoxide and other hydrocarbons into carbon dioxide, and NOx into atmospheric nitrogen, although they don't reduce all of it. You can't have too much carbon dioxide though, just like salt. Their both needed but only in certain quantities.
Carbon dioxide makes everything grow plants,food etc.
@@darylhannon4723water is necessary to drink but if you drink too much you will die, plants with plenty CO2 but heat stress or water stress will not thrive
Go back to chem class.
@@ariaflame-auheat and CO2 makes certain types of plants, especially crop plants, grow better
Quantifying atmospheric exchanges as if by knowing "some of the complexities" we can affect them, next step, politicizing supposed "solutions" ie. CONTROL. I'll take my chances with the changes.
Excellent report.
So,
cows = methane 😷
Bison = green♻
🐂💩😂
No, both of them ♻ and the vege*azis are liars or delusional lunatics, but I guess that is a well known thing at this point.
Industrial farming techniques explain the reason for the distinction.
@@SquawkingSnail ? 0:35
@@AlbertaleoAlbertalei I'm not catching your point, sorry, could you explain what you mean please.
There is a lot more room for these species in North America than in Romania. Just a thought....
1:39 Why is CO2 a villain?
I'd like to see how this compares to the methane emissions from these animals. Methane is more than 20x stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
Also, doesn't compacting the earth make it harder for new plants to grow?
Well, that's Yale for you.
Methane emissions don´t corelate with the number of cows, so the cows are obviously irrelevant in this case. It´s the warming of Arctic area causing melting of permafrost which is responsible for the increased level of methane. It gets released from the soil.
Compacting the earth helps what’s beneath to decay faster, thus producing higher quality, nutrient dense soil for plants to grow.
Grass grows better when it eaten down to a certain level. The walk action breaks up the soil so water can penetrate. The Great Plains of America were formed by Buffalo eating and moving.
Probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever listened to. Calling CO2 “pollution” is right up there as well.
You know the cure to that: stop listening to science articles. You're clearly allergic to knowledge.
Dung beetles along with the bison
🤯 SHOCKING! 🤯
Unless they’re trapping the carbon *deep* underground (like where you’d find oil, gas, and coal), then I have serious questions about the findings.
bison and cattle heal the land if allowed to do it in the regenerative method. Eating beef and bison heals people. Maybe harsh but true.
So why is Europe saying cows produce greenhouse gasses? They just say whatever they want 😅
WOW thanks i never knew stuff like this. Also could WE also just plant more trees around the world to capture more carbon?..
Bring back the wolly mammoth
367,000 births a day says UNICEFF all the Bison and EV's in the world can't fix that.
Uh, any hoofed animal will do this....
But AoC said cow farts are killing us.
I am waiting to hear what the peer review says. Soil carbon storage is a huge potential carbon sink with multiple ancilary benefits, is my understanding. But I thought it is a biological process. Not much related to surface compaction/noncompaction.
Could animals that lived for millenia on this planet without a hiccup until humans came and nearly wiped them out and then things started to go really really bad….actually be the solution we were looking for all along?
We may never know.
Do bison weigh more than cattle? We don’t need to confine cattle and feed them corn…
It's almost like... nature knows best or something. Lol
Wow! Workable old school environmentalism: Do not kill off the wildlife. 👍
Atmospheric CO2 is not pollution and is at about 1/3 the level that C3 plants, over 90% of the plant life on earth, are not struggling. C3 plants evolved over 100 million years ago when CO2 levels were about 10 times higher than today.
Earth's greenhouse effect is frequently used as a primary example to high school students of a system always in saturation from the strong greenhouse gas water vapor absorbing all the greenhouse radiant energy from the earth with greenhouse gases within 20 meters of the surface that is all around us everyday and can't have its overall effect changed. There is no further greenhouse radiant energy to interact with greenhouse gases. At 1% average tropospheric water vapor over 99% of earth’s greenhouse effect is from water vapor. Water vapor would hold earth's greenhouse effect in saturation if it were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Global warming was officially stated at 1.1°C in 1991 and 1.06°C in 2022. There is no mechanism that would allow greenhouse gas behavior to cause global warming. The back of the United Nation's IPCC science report states it took its greenhouse gas samples at 20,000 meters altitude where it is common high school level knowledge there is no greenhouse radiant energy. This is typical practice for deceptive marketing to state legal data transparency protecting the perpetrators from fraud prosecution.
Arctic warming is taking place with the proving mechanism being warm Atlantic Ocean waters migrating deeper and more frequently into the Arctic Ocean warming it and the region. That warmer water is causing a few weeks less of reflective snow and ice coverage resulting in more solar heat gain to the Arctic region surface.
Atmospheric CO2 levels of 1200 ppm about three times what they are today would greatly invigorate C3 plants the majority of plant life on earth greatly greening the planet.
0.4% of the atmosphere is CO2 and on average 1% is H20 water vapor. (1% H20)/(0.4% CO2) = 25. Water vapor is 25 times more present in the atmosphere on average than CO2. Water vapor has an CO2e of 18, 18 X 25 = 450 CO2e total for water vapor to 1 CO2e for CO2.
The Earth’s oceans have 3-1/2 million sea floor volcanic vents warming the water and changing it’s chemistry that have not been systematically accounted for.
If only cows could compact the ground...oh wait.
The only way to lower carbon is by high taxes. Nothing else works.
Seems that cows out on range grass would do the same. Bring on the Steaks
Restoring population of these animals are close to impossible since we have destroyed so much of their original habitat.
Humans are the root of the problem here.
I guess we can stop providing aid to Africa and let them civil war against each other, leave farmlands abandoned and ultimately reduce birth rates.
That would certainly help the African animals mentioned like wildebeest and elephants
But CNN said…
North Dakota, are you listening/watching?
But, but, Bovine farts....
If only there was something that ate Co2, wouldn't that be something....
Yeah, but do they fart? 😂
better than carbon capture? since carbon capture is a very silly method that wouldnt be hard. carbon captured per dollar spent is so close to zero.
The name of this European wild cattle is wisent, not bison.
Cool. How many acres/hectares does a herd of bison need? Now how many for the carbon capture plant?
And there's your sign.
Hectares of naturally occurring grassland? That they occupy without negative effect on native plants and animals?
co2 is needed to keep the planet alive ..there is less co2 now then there was in the past
Farmers have been trying to say this for years. But hey let's keep destroying thousands of acres of pasture land for solar panels.
So if buffalo is good so cattle are good also?
how much methane is produced instead? I love the idea. There is a Russian guy who is trying to make this idea a reality where he aims to repopulate the steppes and tundra.
There were 500 million Buffalo in America
When we get rid of the carbon we are all going to be gone we need it for the plants to make oxygen
Tatanka not Herford.
Feed birds and watch the landscape change
On the funny side of global warming is June bugs in May and May flies in April 😀😂🤣
The heat melted my sense of humor.
I always feed my cows a high fart diet
I mean CO2 capture is a giant fraud. So yea it doesn’t surprise me that the bison do a better job.
There was an interesting study from a number of years ago where nomadic grazers (think it was in the Kalahari) were prevented from grazing their cattle for a few years. During this time there was a rapid increase in desertification which raised questions as to why. The rule was switched back allowing the herders to graze their cattle again and the desertification was reversed without any other intervention. Our planets history is one of massive nomadic herds of animals and balance was kept. The issues are with us and our industrial farming practices. Soil sterility is a big problem that isn't being discussed enough, combatting that threat is key to so many of our efforts to reverse damage.
I expect to see this study either get little attention or be proven wrong. There's not a lot of money to be made from re-introducing or building up Bison herds, but I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from building and maintaining "carbon capture facilities".
Yep. something ranchers have know all all along. When an animal eats forbes and grasses, the roots die back. It's like shedding hair to them. As they grow, they make new roots, and the old ones became carbon in the soil. No CO2, no plants. It's as vital as nitrogen.
Not all ranchers. It needs plant diversity, as well as avoiding overgrazing. Overgrazing allows erosion, let's undesirable plants take over, dries soil, and harms soil biota thru solarization.
Left too long livestock cause compaction, which causes water and root impermeability. Compaction sheds water instead of letting it absorb. This causes longterm downstream dryness as well as flooding, ground subsidence, etc.
A savanna is the best for most productivity, too. It encourages healthy soil biodiversity because trees encourage mycelium which movess moisture and nutrients, keep grass cool enough so grasses grow longer, and help livestock "keep condition," etc.
These Yale guys are paid by the ag industrial complex to justify bad ag methods that currently contribute to compaction. I smell the likes of Gates and Schwab putting their fingers in the framing of why buffalo are good...
In short, let the planet do its job.
Cows don't do this?
I love animals and would like to see more of....all of them. But I have to call bullshit on this non-peer reviewed study.
What about cows?
Great if true. But it seems like the numbers were pulled from somebody's ass. Right off the bat, they admit that the study hasn't been peer reviewed.
Bison and elephant farts good?
Grazing animals reverse desertification.
So Do Cows !
I’m sure all the climate models take this into account.
Unfortunately, this solution does not involve multi trillion dollar spending bills, so it won't be considered.
we should send buffaloes to venus. terraform it.
What about cattle, same species!!!!!!!!!
The bison stomping around may trap CO2 in the soil but the methane they produce is even worse. A bulldozer compacting the ground would make more sense. But isn't compaction of the ground by heavy farm machinery considered to be a bad thing? Anyway, silly videos like this are a lighthearted way to add humor to one's day.
So why are cow farts bad?
Do they fart methane?