What is a Eucalyptus Forestry?

Eucalpytus is a diverse genus of flowering trees of more than 700 species. They are often known as Gum Trees, and for their beneficial economic impact on poor populations. They are grown as plantations to provide raw wood materials & props for gold mining.

However they also suck up from 80 liters a day to 200 hundred liters of water a day, depending on the size of the trees. Not only do you need a lot of water to grow them, these trees also release a chemical into the soil that would kill surrounding plant lives.

Some of the Eucalyptus species also attracted attention from global development researchers and environmentalists. Such species have desirable traits such as being fast-growing sources of wood,oil that can be used for cleaning and functions as a natural insecticide producing , or an ability to be used to drain swamps and thereby reduce the risk of malaria.