India experimented with tree plantation for 200 yrs. Foresters must learn from past mistakes
Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and even the fruitfulness of livelihoods. But efforts to increase global tree cover to limit climate change have skewed towards erecting plantations of fast-growing trees. The reasons…