[abdullahkhalids]

I think surveys for five years survival are still being done, but an earlier survey by WWF found 70-85% survival rates for earlier stages in the life of the trees [1].

Regarding your point, yes, there is a lot of problems in the project with monocultures being planted, especially comprising non-local ones. This is a complex political problem because you want to incentivize planting, but cost of planting "multi"-cultures is much higher.

[1] https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/btap_monitor...