Easter Island is an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean  In reports, the decline of Easter Island's civilization is often used as a cautionary story, telling that humans wantonly logging palm forests, causing the loss of fertile soil, and ultimately leading to a shortage of food on the island  Civilization has since declined
In 1772, Dutch colonists began to land on Easter Island and enslaved the local residents. At that time, the indigenous population on the island was 4,000, and by 1875 there were only 200.
 However, some experts have recently suggested that the decline of the Easter Island civilization is not necessarily related to the felling of trees