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“To me they are as important as any ancient monuments. There has to be a protection put in place. > At 1000 years old, they are ancient monuments.

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tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It looks like the UK has some drastically-older yews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortingall_Yew

The Fortingall Yew is an ancient European yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland. Considered one of the oldest trees in Britain, modern estimates place its age at an average of 5,000 years.[1]

Some estimates put the tree's age at between 2,000 and 3,000 years; it may also be a remnant of a post-Roman Christian site and around 1,500 years old.[2] Others have suggested an age as great as 5,000 to 9,000 years. Forestry and Land Scotland consider it to be 5,000 years old.[1] This makes it one of the oldest known trees in Europe.[3] (The root system of the Norway spruce Old Tjikko in Sweden is at least 9,500 years old.[4]) The Fortingall Yew is possibly the oldest tree in Britain.[2]

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Redfox8@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can get tree protection orders for single or groups of trees. I have a feeling you can make an application to get them protected without them being on your land.

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