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If we only focus on reforestation than we will end up living in a world of monocultures of 2-3 species of trees plantations (like corn fields made out of trees). A forest plantation and a natural forest are two completely different animals. We cannot pile them in the same stack.

The Noel Kempf National park management in Bolivia is a great example of a holistic approach because it focuses on the three pillars of sustainability; economic, social, and environmental.

It is really easy to point your finger and say what is wrong, but doing the field work to make projects and stakeholders to work together has more merit.

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I personally think that Carbon Trading is too narrow of an approach to fix the unbalance of Climate Change. If we think that learning how to measure carbon emissions and offsets will solve Climate Change as a silver bullet approach we will be missing the boat again. -Oil centric or Carbon centric there is not much of a difference-. What about forests, water cycle, seeds, food, soil, biodiversity and balance? Once we get our perfect carbon calculation tools set up are we going to move to the next topic? Maybe then it will be too late. We need to stop thinking of this issue in a single-minded way.

There are different types of forests and assuming that you can manage a tropical forest like a forest in Oregon is naïve. The Amazon contains 50 percent of the world’s biodiversity, a much more complex ecosystem to be managed!

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