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February 19, 2021
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lankan authorities on Wednesday agreed to save the world’s only known wild specimen of a species of tree that was due to be chopped to clear the way for a four-lane expressway.
The Sri Lanka Legume (
Crudia zeylanica) – a flowering tree from the legume family whose pods are not known to be eaten by humans – was first classified in 1868 and last found in 1911.
In 2012 it was declared extinct until the surprise discovery in 2019 of a lone tree near Colombo.
But the eight-metre plant was set to be felled this month to allow the construction of a motorway, sparking uproar from environmentalists as well as politicians and the country’s influential Buddhist clergy.
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