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Appreciate kindness and honesty. Love nature and Australian Birds and Wildlife. There is no life without the arts. Despise greed.
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The world's biggest blue gum is 500 years old. This 80 metre tall giant is in a Tasmanian logging coupe. Tap on the photo below.
The tree — considered to be the world's biggest known remaining blue gum — is named Lathamus Keep for its role as a stronghold for the endangered swift parrot or Lathamus discolor.

This Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus, was discovered by giant-tree hunters in the Huon Valley in 2021 in an area of forest slated for logging.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-04/forest-giant-blue-gum-tree-lathamus-keep-photographed/101592128

Photographing 'world's biggest blue gum' to shine light on 500yo giant in logging coupe

This 80-metre-tall Tasmanian blue gum was discovered by giant-tree hunters in an area of forest slated for logging. So what is the future of the forest giant?

ABC News