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Snow and sleet last January caused the biggest extreme weather disastersouth China has ever seen, in the process causing massive damage to China'sforests. Trees hundreds of years old collapsed and large numbers of wildlifeperished. Thick forests succumbed like matchsticks as nature wreaked havoc.The result is a life-and-death test for south China's forest ecosystem.