LONNAVALE, Australia, May 29, 2025 (AFP) - Loggers fell old, native forests on Australian island

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2025-05-29

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground -- all that remains of a eucalyptus tree that towered into the canopy for centuries. As wide as two dining tables, and standing above head height, it is the by-product of a logging industry carving its way through swaths of native forest in the island state of Tasmania. "We're standing on a stump that's 500 years old. That tree was so, so old," sa......

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