by John Mullinder | Mar 28, 2022 | Ancient forests, Forestry, Greenwashing, Little green lies, Sloppy Journalism
Let me be very clear. I fully support the cause of conserving and protecting the world’s remaining primary forests, and like most people feel enormous empathy for a tree that has survived far longer than we humans could ever hope to live, a tree that was around when...
by John Mullinder | Jan 21, 2019 | Fake News, Forestry
To most people, ancient means old, as in really old. Think of the ancient civilisations of Africa and Asia; of the Incas and the Mayans; and of the ancestors of today’s Indigenous peoples. When we turn to trees, the ‘ancient’ benchmark belongs to the bristlecone pine...
