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NatureÌýoffersÌýa window on global natural history, providing a unique insight into the natural world, the environment, and the magnificent creatures that inhabit it.
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"Nature is full of surprises, so the programme can investigate fascinating and challenging areas in
our relations with the natural world without being too technical or preachy. My job is brilliant because, as a link between the listener and the subject, I can discover new information and ideas which help people make up their own minds on important issues."
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| Paul Evans and Jill Butler Aerial Roots - Hatfield Forest. © Ted Green (Ancient Tree Forum) |
PHOENIX TREES
Trees will never seem the same again. NATURE presenter Paul Evans enters the mysterious world of the phoenix trees.
Phoenix Trees areÌýa particular group of treeÌýspecies which specialists such as Neville Fay and Ted Green from the Ancient Tree Forum, believe could live forever.
Known examples of Phoenix Tree areÌýthe lime and sweet chestnut.Ìý These trees are re-inventing themselves by layering, walking and even rooting into their own rotting trunks.
On his travels Paul meets some remarkable trees, including the Tortworth chestnut which is slowly advancing across its small corner of Gloucestershire and a lime tree in the woods at Westonbirt Arboretum which could be up to 6,000 years old.
With the help of Jill Butler from the Woodland Trust, he also discovers that phoenix trees don't always look old. But whatever their shape and size, their persistence and odd partnerships with fungi that were once thought to be harmful, could change the way we view the British landscape.
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