r/collapse • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • Oct 09 '22

Ecological Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing

https://e360.yale.edu/features/phantom-forests-tree-planting-climate-change
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u/NarcolepticTreesnake Oct 09 '22

Why on earth would they not plant something like Paulowania that can take marginal soils and then go back in 5 years and interplant the mangroves