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Over the past several decades, about 15 billion trees have been lost each year, which has resulted in reduced oxygen production, less carbon dioxide being absorbed from the atmosphere, and accelerated climate change. Deforestation due to agriculture, mining, land development, logging, and other processes that underpin industrialized economies have all played a role. Many reforestation programs have been slow, tenuous, and difficult. Attempts to recover forests by hand — with people planting individual seedlings — are labor intensive, even with the help of machinery. Once seeds are planted, they are confronted by normal to severe forces of sun, wind, and rain, or grazing wildlife, and the industry survival rate is only about 40%. Elevated hillsides or rocky terrains are nearly impossible to recover. In a rush to create change, some governments have accelerated the reforestation process without proper mapping or knowledge of local ecosystems, resulting in failure. Others went ahead and approved monoculture tree plantations, only to be harvested again a few years later. Still others were simply unable to justify the huge expense of restoring natural forests – complete with flora, fauna, and fungi — cleared years ago by mining and agriculture, or destroyed by bushfires.
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