{"id":245602,"date":"2023-02-25T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245602"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T20:40:11","slug":"the-ecologist-who-says-we-need-huge-herds-of-cows-and-sheep-to-stop-desertification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245602","title":{"rendered":"The ecologist who says we *need* huge herds of cows and sheep to stop desertification?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jo Nova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can cows shrink deserts?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Allan Savoury<\/a> is a farmer from Zimbabwe who used to believe that livestock were destroying the land. He still believes the CO2 scary narrative, but even despite all that, he\u2019s an ecologist who now argues we need large herds moving nomadically to stop<\/em> desertification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years ago he was one of the scientists advising the Zimbabwe government to get rid of lifestock to save the land. In a great moment of ecology they even shot 14,000 elephants for land restoration which didn\u2019t work. That was the saddest blunder of my life<\/em>, he says. And when he went to the US he found national parks were desertifying too even though they had not had livestock on them. \u201cClearly we didn\u2019t understand what was driving desertification\u201d<\/em>. He now claims that the soil of grasslands ends up encrusted with algae, which leads to water runoff and evaporation \u201cand that is the cancer that leads to desertification\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure cows don\u2019t change the climate either way, but this sure flies in the face of the idea that livestock create deserts and eating meat destroys the land.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t to <\/strong>Notalotofpeopleknowthat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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