Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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Don't just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those planted trees won't survive. And if they do, they could end up as biological deserts that lack the ric...

Don't just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future
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Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those planted trees won't survive. And if they do, they could end up as biological deserts that lack the richness and resilience of healthy forests.

Originally published at Phys.org

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