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Trees haven’t grown on the Falkland Islands for thousands of years, but tree trunks and branches preserved in peat suggest the islands were once home to a forest


Trees haven’t grown on the Falkland Islands for thousands of years. But tree trunks and branches preserved in peat suggest the islands were once home to a forest.

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