Aboveground biomass is larger in plantations afforested in non-forested lands [9], but smaller in those reforested in natural forests than that in their corresponding adjacent natural forests [e.g., [5], [10]].
The solution is to stop cutting down natural forests".
"All we've committed to is natural forests — that is, forests in good standing, untouched by humans".
There is widespread soil erosion because of the removal of the natural forests.
Protection of natural forests does appear explicitly in the text for the first time, and a safeguard on conversion of natural forests to plantations has reappeared, but neither are mandated.
Governments, multinational companies and campaigners are pledging to halt the loss of the world's natural forests by 2030.
He said plantations of fast-growing trees for energy production would reduce the need to cut trees in natural forests.
In the Solomon Islands, natural forests have been logged so uncontrollably that exports are expected to cease by around 2015.
Much will depend on whether an agreement includes stipulations against the conversion of natural forests into industrial tree plantations.
Despite the availability of ecologically superior alternatives, certain popular brand-name companies still use natural forests or timber plantations.
Under certain conditions plantations can grow relatively fast, thus absorbing CO2 at higher rates than natural forests.
