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Addendum: For clarification, I started reading the manga as well,and found he is *not* planning on clear cutting the forest to plant a new one. He is planning on setting aside a portion of his already cleared land to start a tree farm. I retract my complaint and offer a kudos instead.

I read the manga past this point, and it reinforced the point that he wants to chop down the forest, to plant a forest, to avoid deforestation. Ars is the only person clear cutting the forest, and the only person causing the damage. It isn't the lumberjacks. I don't understand why this is a good thing, and why he wants to do it.

TL: fangs should be tusks.

Nope, it's yours.

Yup.

So is a destroyed forest. Sorry, TL, I was enjoying the story a lot up till now, and I think you did a great job. I just have a huge issue with this very common, and human-centric, attitude.

Well, you did destroy their home and food source.

And this is why royalty the world over kept the forests as their exclusive domain: to keep them from being destroyed by short sighted fools. Nobles had an insane number of faults, but they, at least, usually looked at things through a generational lens, not for immediate gain.

I don't think it's the wildlife that's being a nuisance. They aren't ripping everything up for a few coins.