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Zoological scientists sound the alarm, and there are serious reasons for this: in South Africa began to die millennial baobabs, which are considered the oldest trees of our planet. Just imagine that these baobabs grew at a time when it flourished, and then collapsed The Great Roman Empire is a miracle of some nature, not otherwise …
The fact is that baobabs are unpretentious and very hardy trees, in their “vitality” they can give odds to many plants of our planet, not to mention animals. These giants are not afraid droughts, lightning strikes, they are even easily rehabilitated after “deadly” raids of elephants who like to feast on their wet and nutritious core.
13 of the oldest baobabs grow in South Africa whose age reaches two and a half millennia. By the way note that these fantastic trees do not have tree rings, like everyone else, so their age is determined by scientists quite differently – just carried out, as with ancient organic remains, radiocarbon analysis.
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And then … alarming messages began to come about the death of these millennial giants of Africa. At first the five most ancient withered baobabs (read more about these and other mysterious trees of our planet by reference), and now it became known that and other long-livers of South Africa are gradually dying. Environmentalists, realizing that unique plants of our planet disappear, cannot do anything to do, because the cause of such a disaster is not clear.
Here’s what Sarah Venter says about this – professor University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg:
All the signs that these ancient baobabs could not stand it the drought of recent years. However, such dry years were before, even in my memory, not to mention millennia – and nothing. Like to some mysterious “epidemic” that we didn’t we can determine so far – no trace. Nonetheless, unique baobabs die. And it’s hard even to imagine that for millennia they have not been subjected to something like that and not have developed immunity. Strange, very strange …
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While scientists shrug, trying in vain to get to the bottom to the truth, the mysterious situation with African baobabs right there hoaxers used – supporters of the theory of the approaching Apocalypse. It is difficult to understand how the death of the oldest trees is related with the end of the world, however, even if these unpretentious giants die with a thousand-year history, then something strange is happening in the world and scary.
By the way, many inhabitants of the Earth think so, since signs approaching global global cataclysm today more than enough, and the death of centuries-old baobabs in this case is only an additional argument in favor of all these “painful” assumptions and expectations. Let’s hope that scientists still find the cause of the “baobab epidemic” and save at least the remaining the oldest trees of our planet, thereby once again proving that rumors of the death of our civilization were somewhat exaggerated …
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