PLANT BEHAVIOUR: WHAT DO PLANTS TALK ABOUT?

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"What Plants Talk About teaches us all that 

plants are smarter and much more interactive than we thought!"

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Don Chopo... amenazado?

No sabemos cuál ha sido la intención de rodear a Don Chopo con ramas secas en la época más caliente del año???

El chopo centenario de Jaca (Spain) sigue en peligro!!!

ICH BIN DEIN WALD

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MASSIVE FOREST DESTRUCTION IN INDONESIA

Human impact on Nature: Massive forest destruction of forest in Indonesia (Impacto de los humanos en la Naturaleza: destrucción masiva del bosque en Indonesia). Uploaded by Ben Cushing.

INDIA: LIVING ROOT BRIDGES

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On listening to the word 'bridge', we all form an image of a well structured iron bridge in our minds. But ever heard of natural bridges? Well here's an interesting example of a natural living bridge.

Cherrapunji, a town in North-East India, which is known to be the second wettest place on earth, is also known for its living bridges. Here the bridges aren't built but grown. The living bridges are made from the roots of Ficus elastica tree whose secondary roots grow above the ground surface. 

The villagers have created a root-guiding system that forces the tender roots of the rubber tree to grow straight. Such roots make a strong, living bridge in about 10-15 years.

Unlike the conventional man-made bridges which grow weak over time, these living bridges gain strength over time. Some of these bridges are more than five hundred (500) years old and can support 50 people at a time.

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BRAZIL: DEFORESTATION KING OF THE AMAZON WAS ARRESTED

Ezequiel Antonio castanha, the king of deforestation in Brazil arrested. Fuente: About Brasil.

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Ezequiel Antonio Castanha was the head of the biggest grileiros gang in the Brazilian Amazon state of Pará. Grileiros are criminals that illegally seize federal land, clear-cut it and sell it to cattle grazers. Castanha’s grileiro was responsible for 20% of all the Amazon deforestation in recent years.