“A new Yale-led study estimates that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, about seven and a half times more than some previous estimates. “
Proving that Trees are remarkably sneaky and not to be trusted.
We can’t count existing trees but we can predict future climate numbers with total certainty!
“Attenborough (Michael Palin): (slapping the side of a tree) Well here it is at last ... the goal of our quest After six months and three days we’ve caught up with the legendary walking tree of Dahomey, Quercus Nicholas Parsonus, resting here for a moment, on its long journey south. It’s almost incredible isn’t it, to think that this huge tree has walked over two thousand miles across this inhospitable terrain to stop here, maybe just to take in water before the two thousand miles on to Cape Town, where it lives.
It’s almost unimaginable, I find - the thought of this mighty tree strolling through Nigeria, perhaps swaggering a little as it crosses the border into Zaire, hopping through the tropical rain forests, trying to find a quiet grove where it could jump around on its own, sprinting up to Zambia for the afternoon, then nipping back ...
(a native whispers in his ear)
Oh, super! ...
Well, I’ve just been informed that this is not in fact the legendary walking tree of Dahomey, this is one of Africa’s many stationary trees, Arborus Barnbet Gaseoignus.
In fact we’ve just missed the walking tree... it left here at eight o’clock this morning... was heading off in that direction... so we’ll see if we can go and catch it up.”