Our
earth is sick
2
billion hectares
degraded land¹
15
billion felled
trees per year³
79
percent of the canopies
in GER are in poor condition²
46
percent of all trees have been
already felled⁴
“The world has 10 years remaining to prevent a massive and destabilizing climate change through combined rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, reforestation and other natural climate solutions.”
– United Nations Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change –
One part of the solution
planting trees
The global reforestation of forests would be possible on an area of 0,9 billion hectares and could sequester two thirds of the human made co2 emissions. That would be an effective solution for reducing the atmospheric carbon. To that conclusion came the ETH Zürich.⁵
Mankind has gotten better and better at exploiting the planet. With machines like excavators, harvesters and coal excavators and so on forests and whole landscapes are getting destroyed at a record pace.
Reforestation on the other hand has hardly changed. Mostly, saplings are put into the ground by workers on foot, with shovels, an invention many thousand years old. Furthermore there is none or only little data collection, mapping and success monitoring.
The future of reforestation
Mimicking birds with drones
Birds are true champions when it comes to transporting and spreading seeds.
We made them our model and are mimicking them. Newest developments in drone technology are making it possible to transport large amounts of seeds over rough terrain and bring it out precisely. Through this, reforestation gets significantly faster and cheaper.
Through this, reforestation gets significantly faster and cheaper.
That´s how we want to revolutionize reforestation
1.
Choosing the right seeds, customized to the location and native species.
Manufacturing of seedballs: coating the seeds with a mix of humus, clay, mykorrhiza fungus and scents for defending predators.
2.
Inspecting and analysing the reforestation area with drones.
Creation of a detailled 3D map.
3.
With the help of the created map is exactly planned where how many trees should be sowed.
The drones are flying the planned route and drop up to 2 seedballs per second onto the ground.
4.
Now the seedballs are on the ground.
The coat of the seedball protects against drought and predators.
Only when it rains, the coat dissolves and the seed is able to germinate.
The fertilizer, humus and the fungus are supporting the future tree.
"There are too many spruce plantations in Germany, which die off and leave back a collapsed area.
Here we want to start and bring back german mixed forest at a large scale."
Jan-Niclas Wilken | founder of avestry
"The goal is to bring down cost and time effort drastically and improve quality, to bring reforestation and ecosystem restoration to the future and scale it massively.
We will achieve that with drone technology, automation, digitalisation and computer intelligence."
Tim-Louis Wilken | founder of avestry
We are a young startup, and currently developing drones, software, strategies and processes. We are not able to do that on our own.
That´s why we are looking for experts, mentors, consultants, professors, universities and organisations for the sectors drone building, coding, ecology, botany, seed enhancement, forestry, ecosystem restoration, startup financing, business development and management.
