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.

But fostering biodiversity remains a challenge, conservationists say

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

you posted this about a year ago, that might be it

I mean, it's pretty obvious.. China is huge, Vietnam is tiny compared to it. The reforested area is, therefore, much larger in China.

The map is the forest area in 2020, relative to existing forest area in 1990 (no change would be 0%).

So, if you count by absolute area, China leads, and if you count by relative area, Uruguay leads.

It's forest added, not amount of forest

leads the increase

You know Vietnam is a tropical country.

One of the few good pieces of legislation put forth have curtailed the reach and power of the logging industry and development industries significantly. This is why capitalists in the US hate the EPA.

Going by the logic of US media, it's probably abandoned towns and cities being overgrown.

Wait, it might actually be true.

Yeah honestly that’s really surprising