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Forests are vital to the health of our planet, as their trees are able to store carbon dioxide. They also provide a home to an amazing range of animal and plant species, living in a fragile equilibrium. After centuries of deforestation, woodland cover is actually increasing in many temperate regions, but forests remain vulnerable to climate change, and 2018 saw unprecedented numbers of wild fires in many regions of the world. They remain resilient however, as the regenerating forests around the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine prove.