In 1998, Bruce Cockburn asked a burning question: If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? His chart-topping song attempted to provoke governments to pump the brakes on pillaging the land of a slow-growing resource by highlighting the flood zone risks, loss of habitat for animals and insects, and how trees were, and are, the climate control centre for the world.
Agroforestry, a centuries-old practice of integrating wooded areas, shelterbelts, orchard intercropping, and livestock foraging within agriculture is seeing a resurgence worldwide due to its many ecosystem service benefits including food production, nutrient dispersal, cycling and seed dispersals, carbon sequestration, climate, disease and pest regulation, purification of water and air and biological regulation of the planet.
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