Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210618:02:42:00
That they once occurred, and they have lineages going back to gondwana. so we've lost, in a geological instant, tens of millions of years of biodiversity. that is what has happened on our watch. and that's infinite sadness. these trees would have to be well over 500 years old, some well over 1000 years old. these ancient antarctic beeches. and there are super medicines in the fungi that are within these antarctic beech. and how was that affected by the fires? totally wiped them out. data is emerging that the bushfires of 2020 in the hottest and driest period in australian history were on a sca...