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
Pollen analysis shows that the destruction of forests began as early as 800 AD, and the pollen of large palm trees and other trees in the island's strata was getting less and less.
 However, some experts have recently suggested that the decline of the Easter Island civilization is not necessarily related to the felling of trees