A 'generation gap' can make them disappear in a few decades
Guido Santevecchi
Guido Santevecchi
LONDON - Climate change is not about this time, pace of the Nobel Prize, Al Gore. But Sherwood Forest, site of the legendary battle between Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, is in danger of disappearing. The problem is that many of the big oaks have exceeded eight hundred years and are reaching the end of their natural lives. Until a few decade ago in the largest national park is an old tree crashed on average per year, but the pace recently has increased to five and continues to grow.
The glorious expanse of oaks has been eaten by cultivated fields, from cities and villages, roads and coal mines . And by the loggers of Queen Elizabeth I in 1588 that had to supply wood to the English fleet of Sir Francis Drake.
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