The species, dubbed 'dinosaur trees,' dates back more than 200 million years.
Special Australian firefighters, dispatched by helicopter in a secret operation to a remote gorge northwest of Sydney, have saved the last remaining wild stand of prehistoric trees that were threatened by the country's raging wildfires, official said.
Firefighters were dropped from helicopters into the gorge about a week before fires that have swept much of Australia bore down on the area, said National Parks and Wildlife Service Director David Crust.The operation was kept secret in order to avoid revealing the exact location of the highly endangered trees.," NSW Environment and Energy Minister Matt Kean told the Sydney Morning Herald."We just had to do everything.
“That helped just to slow the intensity of the fire as it approached the site,” Crust told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
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