Firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from Australia's wildfires
Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday.
“That helped just to slow the intensity of the fire as it approached the site,” Crust told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “These pines outlived the dinosaurs, so when we saw the fire approaching we realized we had to do everything we could to save them,” Kean said.The Wollemi Pine had only been seen in its fossilized form and was thought long extinct before the stand was found in 1994.
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