The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest (Spanish)
The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land to become healthy ecosystems again. A mining company in Brazil asked the scientists to restore a tropical forest on their old mining site. The original tropical forest had been cut down to mine the area for bauxite or aluminum ore. The scientists wanted to know whether they could set up the conditions so that plants and animals could come in from outside the mined area without further human help. Then, the new plants and animals might help the land to become healthy again.
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For this FACTivity, you will be growing bean seeds and answering the question: What other benefits does animal scat offer to trees and plants? Four 4-inch plant pots with saucers...FACTivity – The Trees Have Gone Batty! (Spanish)
For this FACTivity, you will be growing bean seeds and answering the question: What other benefits does animal scat offer to trees and plants? Four 4-inch plant pots with saucers...
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