Do anyone have that new article that was like, accusing them of genociding a desert because they turned it into a forest or some shit? I remember it form a year or so back. The reforested an area of desert and this journalist was losing him mind over it.
Edit:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/414155
Ok apparently I posted about it and my memory is just that bad. Lmao. Thanks to comrade GrainEater for reminding me.
The biggest criticism I’ve seen is that the planting project ended up being a huge monoculture of poplar trees, but that was kinda the norm back then in reforestation.
The last I heard the forest they planted was dying from a beetle infestation, and they were going to attempt a redo with a lot more species of trees.
But fostering biodiversity remains a challenge, conservationists say
Checkmate China, what’s the point if you can’t just magically spawn the Amazon forest
That is a valid concern. One of the largest problems with the project was that they planted massive monocultures of single trees. Something that is extremely dangerous as a single parasite, disease, or pest could annihilate hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.
Plus monocultures limit biodiversity to an extreme capacity as the entire forest is suitable only to a very limited number of species. It’s not that the animals aren’t there to begin with, it’s that not many can survive in the mass monoculture forest.
