Reports that the world’s oldest tree has been accidentally chopped down by loggers in Peru has sparked panic among conservationists.
The World News Daily Report claimed that workers were logging deep in the Matsés Indigenous Reserve on the Peruvian and Brazilian border when they felled the ancient specimen. The giant Samauma tree that is thought to be over 5,800 years old judging on its concentric rings and estimated to be close to 40 meters in height was a major part of the native tribes cultural landscape,” the report said, quoting a supposed tribe leader.
While logging in the Matsés Indigenous Reserve is indeed controversial and the Amazon rain-forest is shrinking, but this was FAKE news and the world’s oldest tree is actually somewhere in eastern California and only 5,062 years old.
Kids playing on some seriously old three in the Amazons.