1. I watch chalky earth plains give way to natural forest and fear for their future. 2. If current trends continue, all natural forest land with significant commercial value will be gone within a generation. 3. Not the natural forest, the forest that used to be here, which was pine, now cut over and gone. 4. There have even been proposals to clear natural forests and replace them with dense plantations of fast-growing trees to claim extra credits. 5. You soon pass through oakwoods at Glenhead and Buchan - remnants of the original natural forest. 6. Restrictions on trade could weaken the case for retaining natural forests. 7. And just like the natural forests, with storms and wild fires, our citified ecosystems come with their own myriad man-made dangers. 8. Dr. Power noted that the species found on cocoa farms are not identical to those in natural forests. 9. If current trends continue, then within a decade there will be virtually no natural forests left in several countries scattered around the globe. 10. In the process, they financed the replacement of what they saw as commercially useless natural forests with more economically productive trees. |