When Tree Planting Goes Wrong
Trees are a super-efficient way to sequester carbon, but since planting the wrong trees in the wrong place can do more harm than good, we need to go about tree planting more carefully.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Afforestation: the process of introducing trees and tree seedlings to an area that has previously not been forested.
- Carbon sequestration: a process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in solid or liquid form.
- Ecological restoration: the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
- Moor: wet, upland habitats characterized by low-growing shrubs, grasses, bog-mosses, and damp, peaty soils.
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