When the Europeans arrived, Rapa Nui was grassland, with only a few scrawny trees.
当欧洲人到达时,拉帕努伊还是一片草原,只有几棵瘦骨嶙峋的树。
Whichever is the case, there are surely some valuable lessons which the world at large can learn from the story of Rapa Nui.
不管怎样,拉帕努伊的故事中总有一些宝贵的经验值得全世界学习。
They would have prevented the reseeding of the slow-growing palm trees and thereby doomed Rapa Nui's forest, even without the settlers' campaign of deforestation.