Australia Called Him Crazy for 30 Years — Now His Weeds Are Saving Their Dying Rivers

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  @mishham6388 · 3 months ago

  This bloke is a natural treasure. Australia the environment and agriculture can and should thank this man and listen

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• BI

  @bivu312 · 3 months ago

  Save soil, this is the most important movement worldwide, right now.

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• MA

  @mayoyamahiko · 2 months ago

  This is what YouTube content should be! I'm so impressed and humbled by his work!

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• JA

  @JasonCook-r8v · 2 months ago

  Similar story in New Zealand.  A biologist Farmer allowed his property to continue in being covered in gorse weed. He copped the same backlashings as Andrews. Years later, the gorse naturally died away, but it provided the foundation for his property to turn into a flourish of forests, fertile soils and high productivity compared to surrounding properties.

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• UL

  @UlrichBraunsdorf-r5d · 3 months ago

  He was the BEAVER.

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• TE

  @TerraRebuild888 · 3 months ago

  What an incredible testament to perseverance. It takes immense courage to stand by your vision for 30 years when everyone else calls you crazy. This is a beautiful reminder that sometimes nature’s best healers are the things we dismiss as 'weeds.' Looking forward to seeing how this ecological approach reshapes river conservation.

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• BU

  @buddhababeoz · 3 months ago

  About time someone brought this wonderful mans life back into the spotlight.. The world needs to learn more of Australia's land preservation hero's just like permaculture.

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  @04041919 · 3 months ago (edited)

  Der Mann verdient jede Form von Respekt für seine Weitsicht und seine Beharrlichkeit! Entgegen allen Widrigkeiten zog er das, was er für richtig hielt (und hält!) konsequent durch...und behielt am Ende recht.<br>Bei uns in Deutschland gibt bzw. gab es auch diese Kurzsichtigkeit bzgl. Sümpfen und Mooren. Jahrzehntelang galt die Trockenlegung von Sümpfen als die ultimative Methode, Land für den Ackerbau zu gewinnen. Dass das Land bald ausgelaugt war, nahm man einfach so hin.<br>Mittlerweile ist man diesbezüglich schlauer geworden und setzt im Zuge der Renaturierung darauf, wieder Moore und Sümpfe zu etablieren; nicht nur, das damit auch die Rückkehr so mancher Tierart, die man für ausgestorben hielt, ermöglicht wurde, verbessert es auch die Bodenqualität und das Wassermanagement.

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• GU

  @guntis_rakausks · 3 months ago

  There are many like him all over the world. These people have spent their entire lives fighting the idiocy created by the world&apos;s highly educated idiots.👍

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• RO

  @Rockpuppy22 · 3 months ago

  😢😢😢😢 This breaks my heart. I can only imagine how much seeing that hurt him.

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• MI

  @michaelcallaghan8405 · 3 months ago

  This is natural brilliance. Information like this should be encouraged. Australia wide. No billion dollar investment. But basic use of existing available plants

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• TR

  @trevorbromidge2076 · 3 months ago

  Looks like he beavered away against the Authorities.

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