Forestry Giant Discovers Downside of Planting Millions of Trees

摘要

A multi-decade state program to subsidize tree planting in one of South America’s wealthiest nations led to a loss ofbiodiversity and did little to increase the forests’ capacity to capture greenhouse gases.Chile’s plantation forests more than doubled between 1986 and 2011, while native forests shrunk by 13%, accordingto a new report by U.S. and Chilean academics. The country subsidized tree planting while its forestry sectorboomed over that period.