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You need to look no further than the third sentence of the article to answer your question: "26 billion trees are currently being burned down every year while

• facepalm 12y ago
  That doesn't imply that it's technical issues that prevent replanting. In many regions of the earth, people simply don't care about replanting. And as I said, I don't think you can just replant a burnt down forest.
• pvaldes 12y ago
  Should be: 26 billion big trees are currently being burned down every year while only 15 billion of fragile saplings are replanted and those burned are the lucky remains of trillions of seeds and saplings. To replace a big cod with a cod egg just will not work. You need millions of eggs to assure that an adult fish will survive. With trees is similar.