Deer proliferation disrupts a forest's natural growth

Date:

March 8, 2014

Source:

Cornell University

Summary:

Researchers have discovered that a burgeoning deer population forever alters the progression of a forest's natural future by creating environmental havoc in the soil and disrupting the soil's natural seed banks.

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5,000-year-old forest unearthed by storms: Beach washed away to reveal ancient oaks and pines

The ancient forest was covered in peat before eventually being swallowed by the sea

Legends say trees and nearby township were flooded after a priestess neglected a magical well

Conditions inside the peat, devoid of oxygen and slightly alkaline, have meant the stumps survived

They were uncovered by the latest set of storms which washed away the peat layer

By DAVID WILKES

PUBLISHED: 22:57, 20 February 2014 | UPDATED: 22:57, 20 February 2014

Rising from the beach in a surreal seascape, the remains of these ancient trees have been revealed by the storms.

Thought to date back to the Bronze Age, the shin-high stumps became visible for the first time when the peat which once covered them was washed away in torrential rain and waves pounding the shore.

Now they stud the beach near the village of Borth, Ceredigion, Mid Wales – an area already rich in archaeology, opposite the alleged site of Wales’s own take on the lost city of Atlantis.

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Palm Oil Company Ordered to Pay $30 Million for Illegal Rainforest Destruction

By Alicia Graef

An Indonesian court issued a big blow to a palm oil company for illegally destroying forest land in Sumatra’s protected Leuser Ecosystem, which provides critical habitat for orangutans and other endangered species.

In what’s being called a groundbreaking verdict, the court found palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large areas of the Tripa peat forest in the province of Aceh and ordered it to pay roughly $30 million in fines. An estimated $20 million was allocated for restoration efforts. The court also confiscated land and will be charging a fine for every day the palm oil company delays repayment, reports the Environmental News Servic

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Baby seal found in forest four miles from sea

A baby seal has been discovered in a forest four miles away from the coast by a perplexed walker.

A member of the public was strolling through Uppsala in Sweden when they made the shock discovery. Officials are baffled as to how the animal got there.

'A somewhat confused person called and said he was out walking in the woods where he had found a seal pup. I thought he was joking at first,' said local policeman Henrik Pederson, according to The Metro.

The pup was released into a nearby river. Robert Sandefors, who made the discovery, said: "He must have gotten separated from his mother and gone in the wrong direction."

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