Meadow voles are listed as pests on forest plantations. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. Small farmers in Colombia grow a much wider range of cultivars than large commercial plantations. Before 1865 large southern plantations used slaves. It is now placed to extensive sugar cane plantations. Almost 85% of palm plantations and extraction mills are in south Thailand. Escaped Blacks sought refuge away from the coastal plantations of Ponce. These areas allow for large scale coconut plantations. There are examples in every Southern state except Georgia, where all antebellum plantations were razed. To work these plantations slaves from Africa were imported. Settlers also came, looking for land for cotton plantations. This created an economic chaos for British owners of Caribbean sugar cane plantations. In addition to trade, the English established sugar and indigo plantations and imported slaves. They are descended from slaves brought to work on sugar plantations. Eventually, chattel slavery became the norm in regions dominated by plantations.