Flash Forest, a Canadian startup, is hoping to plant 1 billion individual pine and spruce trees in mainly wildfire-destroyed forests by 2028. Currently, the drones can plant between 10,000 and 20,000 seed pods per day in areas near Toronto and British Columbia, and hope to move to a set of pilots planting 100,000 trees in a day across the globe as the technology advances. Flash Forest hopes to bring eventually bring the cost down to 50 cents per tree. In some cases, funding is sourced from forestry companies and government contracts.
