If a tree was fungible, it'd be great news. In reality, we're replacing trees that you could let 5 people wrap their arms around with 'trees' that you can wrap

If a tree was fungible, it'd be great news. In reality, we're replacing trees that you could let 5 people wrap their arms around with 'trees' that you can wrap a size z pants' belt around, replacing biodiversity with monoculture palm trees. That having been said, I agree with the sentiment. There is actually a lot of great news that we don't report on, like child mortality or severe poverty dropping very sharply. Ourworldindata.org is a great place to start. But in terms of this story, it's not part of the set of good news stories.