Research has found some of Africa’s biggest and oldest trees, aged up to 2,500 years old, have died abruptly.
The trees may have fallen victim to climate change with researchers suspecting the “demise may be associated with significant climate modifications affecting southern Africa”.
Between 2005 and 2017, more than 60 African baobab trees were dated, noting the “unexpected and intriguing fact”, that most of the very oldest and biggest trees died during the study period.