News Headline

Chile's pine forests: a botanical dinosaur bound for extinction?

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2018-12-11

In Quinquen, an indigenous community in southern Chile, Ricardo Melinir shows off a forest of Chilean pine trees—the araucaria araucana, a "living fossil" seen as sacred by several local tribes.

Content
https://phys.org/news/2018-12-chile-forests-botanical-dinosaur-bound.html