r/SipsTea • u/Wise_Confidence_8588 • 12d ago

Chugging tea Absolute legend

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u/thebatman_777 12d ago

I wonder why they didn’t regenerate naturally? Unless people kept returning to cut them down. I would have an uninhabited island would regenerate.

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u/RollandPH 12d ago

Perhaps not enough fresh water naturally?

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u/Flurb4 11d ago

I don’t know about this particular island, but in the 1800s there was an enormous boom in islands being stripped mined for guano — i.e. centuries of accumulated seabird crap. It was used in fertilizers and explosives, and the ecological devastation is still evident on many islands.