What is commercial forestry getting wrong?
The Land & Climate Podcast
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Rethinking Forestry: Forests vs. Plantations
This chapter challenges the notion that plantations are equivalent to natural forests, highlighting their ecological limitations and the misunderstandings surrounding them. It emphasizes the importance of preserving original forests and critiques modern forestry practices that harm ecosystem recovery, stressing the innate regenerative abilities of nature. The discussion further examines the conflict between traditional forestry and progressive ecological perspectives, advocating for a fundamental shift in how society values and manages forest ecosystems.
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