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Can’t you plant trees on the already cleared areas and allow the rainforest a chance to “come back”?

April 26, 2017areas chance plant Rainforest trees

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Can’t you plant trees on the already cleared areas and allow the rainforest a chance to “come back”?

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The vast majority of deforested land in Amazonia becomes cattle pasture which, by the time it has degraded to the point where it is abandoned to secondary vegetation, has left the soil compacted, biologically impoverished, and depleted of basic nutrients.