Supertrees
Trees are incredible. But some have superpowers. In South America, Brazil nut trees grow 14-storeys high and are the Amazon’s rainmakers, each pumping 3.5 bathtubs of water into the atmosphere every day. In Asia, Indonesia’s 7.1 million acres of stilt mangrove trees, covering an area the size of Belgium, can store 5 to 10 times as much carbon per acre as a rainforest. And in Africa, the Congo’s Afrormosia teak trees have fire-resistant bark and support an entire ecosystem of plants and animals. This trio of arboreal superheroes is doing its best to save the Earth. Let’s join them.
— Wayne Visser
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