New aerial images have revealed how close a stand of ancient trees, including one thought to be 3,000 years old, came to being destroyed by bushfire.
However, not all of the ancient Huon pines in Tasmania’s Harman River valley were unscathed, with a landscape photographer documenting some of the damage.
Fires started by dry lightning have been burning in Tasmania’s west for three weeks, creating a fire ground about 100,000 hectares in size.
There were initially fears for the fate of the 3,000-year-old tree, the oldest-known Huon pine, but the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service confirmed last week that the pine and surrounding stand of trees in the upper Harman River valley survived.
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