{"id":38579,"date":"2025-04-12T01:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/seeing-australias-beloved-gumtrees-dying-makes-my-insides-knot-if-they-cant-survive-how-can-we-jess-harwood\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T01:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:38:40","slug":"seeing-australias-beloved-gumtrees-dying-makes-my-insides-knot-if-they-cant-survive-how-can-we-jess-harwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/seeing-australias-beloved-gumtrees-dying-makes-my-insides-knot-if-they-cant-survive-how-can-we-jess-harwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Australia\u2019s beloved gumtrees dying makes my insides knot. If they can\u2019t survive, how can we? | Jess Harwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explore the series \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/last-chance\">Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/10\/sign-up-for-the-clear-air-australia-environment-newsletter-with-adam-morton\">Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s Clear Air column as an email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last week I went to Adelaide to see a man about a tree. The man was Dr Dean Nicolle and the tree was actually 10,000 eucalypt trees and mallees, of over 800 species, which Dean has been planting on a block of land south of Adelaide since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Dean\u2019s passion for eucalypts is incredible. It makes me realise that so much conservation happens purely because someone is just absolutely captivated by something. And thank goodness Dean is, because his love for the eucalypt made the Currency Creek Arboretum, which is designed to bring together all of Australia\u2019s eucalypt species in one place for research.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/12\/ive-seen-australias-beloved-gumtrees-dying-and-it-makes-me-wonder-if-they-cant-survive-how-can-we\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the hardy eucalypts are finding their limits as we experience more frequent bushfires, heatwaves and droughts Explore the series \u2013 Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton\u2019s Clear Air column as an email Last week I went to Adelaide to see a man about a &#8230; <a title=\"Seeing Australia\u2019s beloved gumtrees dying makes my insides knot. If they can\u2019t survive, how can we? | Jess Harwood\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/seeing-australias-beloved-gumtrees-dying-makes-my-insides-knot-if-they-cant-survive-how-can-we-jess-harwood\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Seeing Australia\u2019s beloved gumtrees dying makes my insides knot. If they can\u2019t survive, how can we? | Jess Harwood\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}