News Headline
Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported
Source
Guardian (International Edition)
Publication Date
2022-02-01
There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species.