Do cut down forests really grow back?
Forests can grow back. This is a process called succession but it takes hundreds of years. Of course when all the trees are cut in the area it disrupts the ecosystem and many animals that relied on the presence of the trees for food or shelter will either move or die. However, if forests couldn’t grow back, they would never recover from natural disasters like fires, floods, hurricanes, landslides, and avalanches. A forest will never randomly become a desert. Desertification is the “the extreme deterioration of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas due to loss of vegetation and soil moisture” according to Wikipedia. This means an area has to be pretty dry already to become a desert and forests are not dry places, especially not rain forests. The deserts in the United States and Mexico may be growing, but its not because the forests around them have been cut down. There were no forests around them. If the deserts of the world are growing it’s from human abuse for sure, but not from defore
