A Former NASA Engineer Has Turned Drones Into Seed Helicopters Capable of Throwing Hundreds of Clay Pellets per Minute with an Accuracy of Half a Metre to Reforest Thousands of Hectares of Soil Damaged by Fire and Mining.

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In December 2024, a drone flew over a land ravaged by gold mining near Puerto Maldonado, in the Peruvian Amazon. In just an hour and a half it threw 20,000 seed balls over about 10 hectares, a task designed to return vegetation cover to an almost bare soil. Flying Forests’ system can shoot up to 300 balls per minute with a precision close to half a meter. Her co-founder, Lauren Fletcher, estimates that four drones could plant the equivalent of 4…