Thursday, December 6, 2012

World's oldest and biggest trees 'dying out'

Agence France-Presse: Research by universities in Australia and the United States, published in Science, said ecosystems worldwide were in danger of losing forever their largest and oldest trees unless there were policy changes to better protect them. "It's a worldwide problem and appears to be happening in most types of forest," said David Lindenmayer from the Australian National University, the lead author of a study into the problem. "Just as large-bodied animals such as elephants, tigers, and cetaceans have...

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9728797/Worlds-oldest-and-biggest-trees-dying-out.html
Enclosure: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02392/Baobab-tree-madaga_2392337b.jpg

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