Environment: ‘Green Deserts’ in China

Gaoming Jiang of China Dialogue ^[1] writes of ‘green deserts’ characterized by poplar trees and nothing else.
“The Chinese government should consider the needs of local species and biodiversity. We need to consider planting slow-growth but high-quality wood alongside faster-growing species. We must reduce the dominance of the poplar, allowing natural forest ecosystems to play the role they should.”