only problem is it native species to the desert, or an exported potentially invasive species to the desert.

Those fucking Chinese, amirite? All they do is evil. While blockading Cuba is for humanity!

We found, for the FIRST time, that human-led intervention can effectively enhance carbon sequestration in even the most extreme arid landscapes, demonstrating the potential to transform a desert into a carbon sink and halt desertification… Based on the results of this study, the Taklamakan Desert, although only around its rim, represents the FIRST successful model demonstrating the possibility of transforming a desert into a carbon sink," Yung said.

(emphasis mine)

And here I thought they had been doing that around the world.