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There's so much diversity in the Amazon rainforests, though, that if you wipe out one patch you lose some species forever. And generally what grows back in an area that's been clear-cut isn't much like what was growing there before. You get growth, yes, but you only get the most opportunistic species. It takes a long time for the land to recover when it's been completely stripped.
(But at least it's acting as a carbon sink again.)
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