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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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[–] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

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.

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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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    The biggest criticism I've seen is that the planting project ended up being a huge monoculture of poplar trees, but that was kinda the norm back then in reforestation.

    The last I heard the forest they planted was dying from a beetle infestation, and they were going to attempt a redo with a lot more species of trees.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But fostering biodiversity remains a challenge, conservationists say

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years 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.

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