In order to guarantee that the trees that are replanted in the reforestation campaigns of the Yucatecan capital survive and grow, the Environment and Animal Welfare Unit is using Air-Pot containers, a Scottish technology that allows for larger plants.
Raúl Escalante Aguilar, biologist, and director of the Unit, explained that the containers have an aerodynamic shape that allows aeration to benefit the roots, which strengthens the tree and, depending on the species, makes it grow in less time, in addition to contributing to making the transplant practical and successful.
“At the time of transplanting, there is no longer any loss of any material, because the root is fully integrated into its taproots, which are essential for the tree to survive. The probability of survival rises to 99.5 percent, which will help in our reforestation,” commented the municipal official.
He explained that without the Air-Pot, a tree measures between 30 and 50 centimeters when it is transplanted, but with the containers, they can grow up to five meters, which causes the level of survival to increase noticeably and the reforestation of the city is successful and meet their objective.
He commented that this project began with a thousand containers and the municipality is close to receiving another thousand, but as they arrive, tests are being carried out and the Environment and Animal Welfare Unit will sign agreements with universities so that they can work together to analyze what species do best in Air-Pots.
Escalante Aguilar indicated that in these first thousand containers, trees of 37 different species such as ramón, balché, chaká, and campanita, as well as others are being planted and it is also being analyzed in which areas of the city these plants will be transplanted.
TYT Newsroom
