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On the other hand, it is great I think, when economic interests produce mass planting of trees. It is not realistic to assume, that we will let agricultural lan
by adminu 7y ago
On the other hand, it is great I think, when economic interests produce mass planting of trees. It is not realistic to assume, that we will let agricultural land become wasteland for the nature to recapture it.
It is the same principle with the hunting of e.g. rhinos. Licenses for killing rhinos are given out for money (sometimes quite a lot) and that money is put into sustaining the population. Without that economic incentive, poachers will kill the animals, but nobody will try to sustain them.
- blunte 7y agoPortgual is an example of why this is a bad idea. The timber industry introduced and mass planted eucalyptus trees in that country many years ago, and those invasive, rapidly growing, highly flammable trees have become a huge problem. Huge forest fires are common and deadly to humans (60 killed in one fire in 2017). Had these been native and diverse trees, the fires would not spread as far and as rapidly as they do now.