The Impossible Mission to Green the Chihuahuan Desert

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Watch Our Latest Video: "How The Andes Lost Cloud Forests Are Being Brought Back Using A Rare Tree" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3px0lY97g --~-- The Chihuahuan Desert, is the largest desert in North America. Its considered to be the most biologically diverse desert in the world and it is home to an abundance of life insects, amphibians, fish, birds, reptiles and mammals that all coexist in the harsh desert environment with blistering daytime temperatures and below-freezing temperatures at night. However because of human activities such as farming, cattle ranching & oil drilling the desert is loosing thousands of hectares of grassland, which is becoming severely degraded and is having a detrimental affect on wildlife, such as the Mexican wolf now listed as endangered The Chihuahuan Desert grasslands serve as wintering grounds for a large proportion of North American Great Plains birds including a number of significantly declining species such as mountain plover, ferruginous hawk, and Baird’s sparrow. 53 percent of the grassland bird species that breed on the Great Plains in the United States and Canada during spring and summer travel hundreds of kilometers to winter in the grasslands of the Chihuahuan Desert, which encompasses the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and spreading across the northwestern region of Mexico. This is why we decided to fund a project, through our regenerative membership program, where our viewers can contribute to amazing sustainable initiatives across the world, you can learn more here: https://www.leafoflife.news/regenerating-the-desert This project to protect grassland birds and restore vital grassland habitat is located in the southern part of the Chihuahuan Desert, its a semi-arid region with extensive grassland and scrub cover as well as a temperate forest in the high mountain areas, but is not exempt from the environmental problems associated with land use changes in favor of agricultural and livestock activities. In this region, extensive areas of scrub cover have mostly been converted into new croplands and pasturelands. Our mission is to restore this over grazed cattle ranch and bring back native grasses to this eroded zone by digging several retention ditches, creating a swale on contour, a small water retention pond and zai holes to capture and hold water which will create a haven for wildlife such as birds. If you wish to volunteer on this project, we are looking for conservation biologists who would like to monitor the site, then please get in touch with us here: https://www.leafoflife.news/contact 🔔 SUBSCRIBE @LeafofLifeWorld @LeafofLifeES _________________________ 💚 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Support our on the ground impact work at: https://www.leafoflife.news/ _________________________ This video is for education and research purposes If you are the owner of any of the images please contact us an we can credit or remove the image, THANK YOU FAIR USE COPYRIGHT NOTICE The Copyright Laws of the United States recognizes a “fair use” of copyrighted content. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act states: “NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 106 AND 106A, THE FAIR USE OF A COPYRIGHTED WORK, INCLUDING SUCH USE BY REPRODUCTION IN COPIES OR PHONORECORDS OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS SPECIFIED BY THAT SECTION, FOR PURPOSES SUCH AS CRITICISM, COMMENT, NEWS REPORTING, TEACHING (INCLUDING MULTIPLE COPIES FOR CLASSROOM USE), SCHOLARSHIP, OR RESEARCH, IS NOT AN INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.” THIS VIDEO AND OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL IN GENERAL MAY CONTAIN CERTAIN COPYRIGHTED WORKS THAT WERE NOT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED TO BE USED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S), BUT WHICH WE BELIEVE IN GOOD FAITH ARE PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND THE FAIR USE DOCTRINE FOR ONE OR MORE OF THE REASONS NOTED ABOVE. IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC CONCERNS ABOUT THIS VIDEO OR OUR POSITION ON THE FAIR USE DEFENSE, PLEASE CONTACT US IN THE COMMENTS OR SEND AN EMAIL SO WE CAN DISCUSS AMICABLY. THANK YOU.