We're reclaiming Iceland's Deserts - here's how

🌳 Reclaiming the desert is a difficult task but it is something we can tackle together because of our members!
To join them you can learn more here: https://mossy.earth

MOSSY EARTH MEMBERSHIP
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📝 FIELD NOTES CHANNEL
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Where we post more regular and raw on the ground updates from many of our projects
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🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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Iceland is known for its vast open landscapes shaped by massive volcanos and expansive glaciers. Native birchwoods, the only woodland type to form in Iceland, are also an important part of the landscape. They offer food and shelter for biodiversity, help stabilise soil, provide wind breaks, and sequester carbon. At one point, it is thought that 25-40% of Iceland was covered in birchwoods. Now, it's just 1%. This project, in partnership with the Iceland Forest Service and private landowners Kári and Ragnheiður, aims to restore birchwoods to an area about 120km east of Reykjavik in the southern uplands of Iceland, where natural succession could take centuries or even millennia.
Read more here: https://www.mossy.earth/projects/refo...

🇮🇸 WATCH PREVIOUS VIDEOS
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PART 1:    • We’re Bringing Back Iceland’s Forgotten Fo...  
PART 2:    • Iceland's Deserts Are Turning Purple - her...  
PART 3:    • A Volcanic Eruption is Reforesting Iceland...  
PART 4:    • How we are creating a forest in this barre...  
PART 5:    • We’re Rewilding Iceland’s Deserts - here’s...  

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
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0:00 Introduction
1:35 The Desert
3:20 The Lupine Question
8:09 Our Project

🎬 CREDITS
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Project management: Ellie Parkes
Filming: Duarte de Zoeten and Julie Schleiss-Andreassen
Writing: Duarte de Zoeten
Editing: Duarte de Zoeten, Thomas Berry and Thomas Hikin
Scoring: Duarte de Zoeten

🔬 SOURCES
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The Icelandic volcanic aeolian environment: Processes and impacts — A review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Does the Nootka lupin facilitate or impede colonization and growth of native birch in Iceland?: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The Environment Agency - Managing Invasive Plants: https://ust.is/library/Skrar/Ensk-sid... Invasive plants Alaskan Lupin.pdf

Icelandic Terrestrial habitat types: https://www.natt.is/en/flora-funga/ha...

Spatial distribution of forests and woodlands in Iceland in accordance with the CORINE land cover classification: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The effect of vegetation reclamation on birds and invertebrates in Iceland: https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/149...

Effects of sandplain revegetation on avian abundance and diversity at Skogasandur and Myrdalssandur, South-Iceland: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The effect of insect herbivory on seed production of Lupinus nootkatensis, an introduced species in Iceland: https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wil...

Invasion of a Legume Ecosystem Engineer in a Cold Biome Alters Plant Biodiversity: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

Facilitation of afforestation by Lupinus nootkatensis and by black plastic mulch in south-west Iceland: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

Negotiating contested landscapes : The lupin controversy in Iceland: https://www.ssns.org.uk/wp-content/up...

Floral hazards: Nootka lupin in Iceland and the Complex politics of invasive life: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The interaction between native insect herbivores, introduced plant species and climate change in Iceland: https://opinvisindi.is/server/api/cor...

History of afforestation in the Nordic countries: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...