Endangered Queñua trees
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Story & Experience
For a place of healing we chose trees on the Altiplano in the Andes. Sadly, here trees have been chopped down in the last year. After making many paper birds, we stood beside the biggest Queñua tree (Polylepis rugulosa). It is a very slow growing tree with beautiful reddish brown bark that looks like shiny wood shavings. Despite being on the red list of threatened species since 2006, several branches of this tree were also unnecessarily amputated a few months ago. At the end of the morning, we heard birds singing as the photo was taken.
For a place of healing we chose trees on the Altiplano in the Andes. Sadly, here trees have been chopped down in the last year. After making many paper birds, we stood beside the biggest Queñua tree (Polylepis rugulosa). It is a very slow growing tree with beautiful reddish brown bark that looks like shiny wood shavings. Despite being on the red list of threatened species since 2006, several branches of this tree were also unnecessarily amputated a few months ago. At the end of the morning, we heard birds singing as the photo was taken.
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