Yeah, I went to southern Yunnan in China in the early 90s. They had wiped out hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforest clearcutting it "for progress" and "modernization" there was nothing left. The hills were just covered in mud. The rivers were filled with mud, everywhere was nothing but mud and massive erosion.

One little tiny section had been left, perhaps a few thousand acres. You could pay to go in there and spend the night in a tree house to see all the animals that had fled from the deforested area that were fed bales of hay in order to collect a few bucks from the tourists. There was all sorts of wildlife diversity in that little sliver that was left. You could cynically claim that this was good for diversity.

In fact, it was quite sad. The whole thing was depressing.