Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, and for decades it has been blamed for the destruction of the world's rainforests. However, a new study of more than 18,000 forest patches around the world found that the e...

Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-unwritten-social-oversight-forest-sustainable.html)

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