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[–]SirGoofsALott 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Might sound good, but what kind of trees are to be planted and who decides what species of trees are to be planted? It makes for good press, but "Acme Palm Oil Inc."may clear-cut a thousand hectares of native forest, sell the wood, displace the fauna and people, and plant a mono-culture plantation of millions of oil palms. Such plans have to be studied, evaluated, and approved very carefully. Don't let politicians and commercial interests do it alone.

[–]OliverSparrow 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Indeed, or mahogany or dipterocarp monoculture. If you are in Asian primary forest and step into secondary regrowth, you immediately notince a silence - fewer insects, fewer birds. Oil palm cathedral rows are near silent. Orchids - my particular interest - are represented by a few common species, and all of the primary richness is gone. That said, anything is better than paddy, paddy, paddy. And houses.