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People assume tree planting is great for wildlife and it almost never is.
So many of our diverse old woodlands were taken over for forestry, wiping out the biodiversity that existed.
There’s an old woodland near me that the Victorian botanists were interested in. They recorded 450 flowering plants and then the forestry commission bought it, cleared it and replanted with conifers. I wish I could see what it was like back then. Now it’s a dark and gloomy lifeless place.
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Strange to think humans have managed to engineer a country with 76% forests but ecologically depleted
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/22/finland-restoring-river-ecosystems-rewilding