Rain Forest

I don't know if it is still that way, but in Mexico, flying over the mountainous rain forests near the coast one could see smoking fire after smoking hillside from "slash and burn" strategies to secure farm-able land. The fire put carbon into the soil, often a depleted sandy thin topsoil. The farmer would benefit from a few years of vigorous crop growth; following which, the erosion of the hillside and the depletion of the ground would render the area useless.
The farmer then goes to yet another area to repeat the process.

Here the environment remains undisturbed. Coffee trees have adapted to the rain-forest and grow with vigor under the protection and in harmony with the natural ecology of the mountain.