Macchia in Corsica | Photo: Markus Schweiss | On Creative Commons Attribution license - On the same terms 3.0
Currently, the Mediterranean area is heavily deforested. Deforestation during the Roman period was the result of the Empire’s territorial expansion, population growth, large-scale agriculture and rapid economic development.
Rome led Western Europe to a large extent towards development, which brought with it strong deforestation around the Mediterranean Sea.
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