For thousands of years before Iceland was settled, most of the lowlands and some of the highlands were covered with birch forests. While fragments of primeval forests still exist and have grown thanks to protection from grazing sheep and a milder climate, much of the country is now tree and forestless. The biologist Atli Jรณsefsson, encouraged by the United Nations with “a call to protect and […]
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