Firefighters in Australia successfully embarked on a secret mission to save the prehistoric -- and extremely rare -- Wollemi pine trees from the bushfires ravaging the country, officials said. 'Wollemi National Park is the only place in the world where these trees are found in the wild and, with
Firefighters in Australia successfully embarked on a secret mission to save the prehistoric -- and extremely rare -- Wollemi pine trees from the bushfires ravaging the country, officials said.
"Wollemi National Park is the only place in the world where these trees are found in the wild and, with less than 200 left, we knew we needed to do everything we could to save them," Matt Kean, the country's minister of Energy and Environment, said in a statement.The exact location of the trees is kept secret from the public to prevent contamination, but four firefighters were asked to visit the site for the mission.
As the fire approached the trees, helicopters dumped buckets of water on the fire edge to reduce its impact on the grove of trees, which are sometimes referred to as"dinosaur trees." Wollemi National Park is located in New South Wales, a state that has been particularly devastated by the fires that began in September 2019.As of Friday local time, 85 bush and grass fires were still burning, according to the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. Thirty of those fires were still not contained.
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