Every trashing of a tropical ecosystem for any excuse, has severe long-term consequences from soil degradation and demineralization to loss of cloud-generating isoprene emissions to loss of all native fauna/flora to complete upset of Indigenous life. Here, they pretend to talk about food security as if to feed their population, but most of the talking points seem to be about foreign income-generating cash crops. Sag mir wo die Blumen sind? When will they ever learn? Not.
You said it right there: "one-stemmed palm tree." If everything that is tall with a trunk is a "tree," OK, but it has no woody stem. Real trees are deciduous or conifers with actual wood and a growing cambium layer. But you're correct, no human planting of even native species can re-create a real forest.
It's all in the name: Palm is a palm, not a tree! I would avoid eating that fat: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2020.1869694
Every trashing of a tropical ecosystem for any excuse, has severe long-term consequences from soil degradation and demineralization to loss of cloud-generating isoprene emissions to loss of all native fauna/flora to complete upset of Indigenous life. Here, they pretend to talk about food security as if to feed their population, but most of the talking points seem to be about foreign income-generating cash crops. Sag mir wo die Blumen sind? When will they ever learn? Not.
Thanks for this Kathleen - actually oil palm is a tree. "The African oil palm, E. guineensis Jacq. (Arecaceae) is a monoecious, erect, one-stemmed palm tree, usually 20–30 m high." (https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.1079/cabicompendium.20295)
But that's not the point. Eucalyptus is also a tree. But a monoculture of eucalyptus, or oil palm, is a plantation not a forest.
You said it right there: "one-stemmed palm tree." If everything that is tall with a trunk is a "tree," OK, but it has no woody stem. Real trees are deciduous or conifers with actual wood and a growing cambium layer. But you're correct, no human planting of even native species can re-create a real forest.
Is a good example of making everything cheap and usable.