Amber found in the Amazon forest region of Ecuador containing a trove of well-preserved fossils of wasps, midges, flies, ...
The planet and everything on it would have been infinitely better off had Homo sapiens never raised his ugly head. War, pestilence, greed, hate, envy, destruction, pollution, extinction of plants and ...
Like prairies, most native wetlands, savannahs, and forests have also been degraded or destroyed. Their future depends on intentional plantings.