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Re:Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015 by slededit on Friday February 16, 2018 @06:25PM (#16397518)
Since about 2003 or so world forest cover has been growing - not decreasing. So the answer is we've already decided.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/glo...

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Re:Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015 by oldcynic on Friday February 16, 2018 @07:29PM (#16397955)
We're still losing vast amounts of ancient tropical rainforest whilst we've started to increase temperate and mostly boreal forest (coniferous).

It's not a fair trade and of no help to the species under threat.

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