💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🌲📏 A team called the “#Taiwan tree seekers” used airborne lasers to scan #forests from above, then 372 citizen volunteers helped sort through 57,000 candidates from home.
The winner, an 84 m Taiwania fir named “Heaven Sword,” is taller than a 20-story #building, and over 1,000 years old. It was measured by climbers who hiked two days into Taiwan’s misty #mountains during #LunarNewYear 2023.
👉 https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/taiwans-tallest-tree-found-with-help-of-citizen-science/
#trees #lidar #ecology #conservation #nature #science #indigenous

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science
Deep in Taiwan’s misty mountains, researchers have confirmed the tallest tree in the country: a thousand-year-old fir tree higher than a 20-story building, which they’ve named “the heaven sword of the Da’an River.” Climbers scaled the tree and dropped a measuring tape from the top to the forest floor during the Lunar New Year holiday […]







