- Plantations aren't worse for the soil than native vegetation most of the time. Sometimes they can be better for it. - A lot of the time plantations are plant

- Plantations aren't worse for the soil than native vegetation most of the time. Sometimes they can be better for it. - A lot of the time plantations are planted on less productive farmland. - Not all plantations will naturally regenerate quickly back to native vegetation. - Those trees were planted for a reason and a lot of plantations are planted on degraded farmland or scrubland.