https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforestation-and-forest-growth-by-country/

  • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Do anyone have that new article that was like, accusing them of genociding a desert because they turned it into a forest or some shit? I remember it form a year or so back. The reforested an area of desert and this journalist was losing him mind over it.

    Edit:

    https://lemmygrad.ml/post/414155

    Ok apparently I posted about it and my memory is just that bad. Lmao. Thanks to comrade GrainEater for reminding me.

    • lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      But fostering biodiversity remains a challenge, conservationists say

      Checkmate China, what's the point if you can't just magically spawn the Amazon forest

      • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        That is a valid concern. One of the largest problems with the project was that they planted massive monocultures of single trees. Something that is extremely dangerous as a single parasite, disease, or pest could annihilate hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

        Plus monocultures limit biodiversity to an extreme capacity as the entire forest is suitable only to a very limited number of species. It’s not that the animals aren’t there to begin with, it’s that not many can survive in the mass monoculture forest.