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Description: Scientist Suzanne Simard explains the complex intelligence of how trees communicate with one another and are super cooperators rather than competitors. This beautiful story takes you into the forest to see how trees share resources and protect each other from invaders and disease while nurturing their young. Feel your childlike sense of wonder awaken as you walk through the forest learning about the natural intelligence of our planets ecosystems. Nature cooperates, more than competes, to build a thriving community of diverse species that will help the whole system withstand various attacks. We could gain a lot of perspective from learning how to cooperate with one another instead of endlessly competing. Nature already has the design. 🌍 LIKE + SUBSCRIBE + CLICK BELL TO SIGN UP FOR NOTIFICATIONS 🌍 Learn more about this video ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/stories/how-trees-talk 🌍 Support us on Patreon ⟹ patreon.com/sustainablehuman 🌍 Make a one-time donation ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/donate Sustainable Human is a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to evolve human consciousness by examining the underlying stories that give rise to the environmental, social, and economic crises of our time and offer new stories that help humanity to live in harmony with each other and the biosphere. 🌍 Hire us to tell your story ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/video-storytelling 🌍 Sponsor a story ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/sponsor-a-story 🌍 Help us translate this video ⟹ sustainablehuman.org/translate 🌍 Story by Suzanne Simard ⟹ suzannesimard.com 0:00 - Imagine You Are Walking Through The Forest 0:27 - What are mycorrhiza? 1:02 - How mother trees take care of their young 2:04 - What are the threats to mother trees? 2:38 - Effects of losing mother trees 2:58 - Why we need to save our old growth forests TRANSCRIPT: Imagine you’re walking through a forest. I’m guessing you’re thinking of a collection of trees but a forest is much more than what you see. Underground there is this other world, a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as though it’s a single organism. Mycorrhiza literally means “fungus root.” They’re the mushrooms. The mushrooms are fungal threads that form a mycelium and where the fungal cells interact with the root cells, there’s a trade of carbon for nutrients. The web is so dense that there can be hundreds of kilometers of mycelium under a single footstep. That mycelium connects different individuals in the forest, individuals not only of the same species but between species. We have found that mother trees nurture their young. A mother tree can be connected to hundreds of other trees. We have found that mother trees will send their excess carbon through the mycorrhizal network to the understory seedlings. They even reduce their own root competition to make elbow room for their kids. When mother trees are injured or dying, they also send messages of wisdom on to the next generation of seedlings. We’ve used isotope tracing to trace carbon moving from an injured mother tree down her trunk into the mycorrhizal network and into her neighboring seedlings, not only carbon but also defense signals. Through back and forth conversations, they increase the resilience of the whole community. That’s because there are many hub trees and many overlapping networks. So trees talk. Keep Reading: sustainablehuman.org/stories/how-trees-talk/#Transcript #MotherTrees #SuzanneSinard #SustainableHuman