Drones drop 75,000 tree seeds in 8 hours!

It's tech meets trees in this new project from the Woodland Trust

Drones have been used to scatter 75,000 tree seeds in an aim to triple rainforest cover in areas of England.

In a project led by the Woodland Trust, drones flew over Devon and Cornwall with seeds of trees native to the area.

A big benefit of using drones is that they can reach areas that humans can't, making them able to plant trees in places that couldn't be planted by hand.

The Woodland Trust hopes that this hi-tech planting method will help to increase the rainforest so that it makes up nearly a quarter of the land in the area by 2050.

It's hoped that the drones could revolutionise how trees are planted

The planting was done in just eight hours, with the drones scattering seeds - including pedunculate oak, alder, wild cherry, downy birch and hazel - over the hills of Bodmin.

The project was a trial as part of the Woodland Trust's Rainforest Recovery Project, which was funded as part of a government drive to protect species.

The Woodland Trust's project officer Sam Manning said: "Rainforest once covered 75% of Devon and Cornwall but we have lost 90% of it.

"Sadly, rainforests cover just 1% of the Earth's land surface, and we are one of only a small handful of rainforest nations left on Earth.

"Restoring and expanding our temperate rainforests are vital to solving the climate and biodiversity crises."

The drones carried a total of 58kg of seeds