Australia’s Wollemi pines survived the dinosaurs once. Now firefighters are helping them through the country’s worst bushfires in generations to live another day
A helicopter hovers overhead as a specialist team of remote-area firefighters and parks staff inspect the endangered Wollemi pines for bushfire damage at Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia mid-January 2020.
The giant prehistoric trees were thought to be extinct until 1994, when authorities found 200 of them in a national park near the Blue Mountains north-west of Sydney.
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