Planting new trees is too often offered as compensation for cutting down existing older trees. But, In comparison with newly-planted trees, many of which don't survive their first seasons, "large-diameter trees store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon" and provide much better habitat for biodiversity, resilience to drought and fire, and urban heat-reduction." https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2020.594274/full #Proforestation #TreeJustice