Question of the week: does farming care for or destroy nature?

In Europe it is difficult to know what the landscape looked like before farming, but much of it was forested. However, in more recently altered landscapes, like New Zealand’s, it is easier.

A time series of maps shows how the vast majority of New Zealand’s forests have disappeared, largely at the hands of farmers, and most of it to graze livestock.

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