Iceland is beautiful yet barren country, but it wasn’t always like this. When the Vikings first arrived to Iceland more than a millennium ago, they found an uninhabited landscape with plentiful forests and other woodlands. So what happened? The Vikings began chopping down and burning Iceland’s forest for timber, and to clear space for farmland and grazing pastures. See here how Iceland is working to regain the lost benefits of its anciens forests by restoring the island’s native tree cover.
How Iceland is regrowing forests destroyed by the Vikings
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