Biodiversity loss, water pollution, transformation of the rural landscape, clearing of native forest, soil erosion, displacement of rural populations. In Argentina, these phenomena are commonly associated with soy cultivation, which has doubled over the last 10 years to cover 20 million hectares (49 million acres), taking a heavy environmental and social toll. Nevertheless, environmental and social-advocacy groups also worry about another cause of land-use change that, while not as prevalent as soy farming, has grown notably in the past 15 years and caused similar impacts. The cause in this case is exotic-species tree farming, which provides over 90% of the timber used by Argentina’s wood-products industry. Argentina now has 1.2 million hectares (3 million acres) of tree farms compared to 300,000... [Log in to read more]