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China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth (media.mas.to)

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

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[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.