#Environment #Forests
#SolutionsForClimateChange
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...👉#Ukraine’s forests were considered some of the world’s most damaged. 👈0👉The expansion of agriculture in this major food exporter had vastly reduced forest cover; nearly half of Ukraine is now cropland. In many of the forests that remained, open stands of fire-adapted Scots pine had been replaced by crowded, 👉more fire-prone plantations.👈"
"“Economics, legislation, and habit” enable plantations to persist, ...