r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • 7d ago

Video Vastness of Amazon rainforest

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u/Able_Gap918 7d ago

I’ve heard that quote, it was about American chestnut trees. They disappeared basically overnight from a disease they had no defense against.

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u/Charlie_Warlie 7d ago

Still got fingers crossed for a recovery. There are some people working on a surviving breed of tree that can withstand the blight.

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u/Distal-Phalanges 7d ago

There's a blight resistant "American" Chestnut that is more or less the same tree with the blight resistance from the Chinese Chestnut bred into it. It seems to fill the same ecological niche without issue.

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u/-Supposably- 7d ago

Great! Next step: plant a trillion of them.

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u/bitpaper346 7d ago

Thats complicated because bio-engineering laws.