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Chile in the 1970s replaced vast native forests with pine plantations, but scientists later found streams shrinking while wildlife quietly disappeared

If you think of a flourishing, lush green forest, what do you generally visualise? Perhaps you see endless lines of thick green trees covering whole mountain chains. For long, commercial foresters have defined any large area of trees as a forest. It has been a common assumption that creating extensive areas of fast-growing trees is one of the best ways of protecting soil and managing nature.

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