Seeing the forest for the trees: World's largest reforestation program overlooks wildlife

Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 05:01 in Biology & Nature

New research found that China's reforestation program, the world's largest, overwhelmingly leads to the planting of monoculture forests that fall short of restoring the biodiversity of native forests -- and can even harm existing wildlife. The researchers found, however, that multi-species forests could be planted without detracting from the economic benefits China's poor and rural citizens receive for replanting forests.

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