Can Australian foresters save Great-Grandfather Peter?
Thoughtless boys cut him down. The foresters have set him up again, and hope he will keep on living.
Great-Grandfather Peter is the local name given to a big cycad, perhaps the oldest tree of its kind in the world. It grew on Tambourine Mountain, near Brisbane, Australia, until a short time ago when a group of boys, idly looking about for something to chop at, cut it down.
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