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by laeri 633 days ago
This might be misleading as often biodiversity can't be measured by how lush it looks and how much vegetation there is. Certain plants and animals can only survive in arid landscapes that look 'dead' but can't survive otherwise as they are adapted to an environment with less nutrients. So it is possible that you actually reduce biodiversity by doing things like this. Often land has too much nutrients due to farming and leaving arid landscape as it is might be better.
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You would only do this to a land that is degraded. I don’t mean, degraded like in its natural state I mean, degraded as an already fucked up by man. In this case, the land was choked with invasive grasses