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 scale never experienced on this continent. here, on its burnt edges,
which is one of our most ancient frogs, have been almost entirely wiped out, because all the leaf litter and all the organic matter in the forest s floor and in the soil burnt through. and they lived within these permanently wet soaks in the forest. and they re now gone from areas that we know 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 s what happened on our watch. and that s infinite sadness. these trees would have to be well over 500 years old, some are well over 1,000 years old. these ancient antarctic beeches. and there are super medicines in the fungi that are within these
there are whole areas where we knew that species such as sphagnum frogs, which is one of our most ancient frogs, have been almost entirely wiped out, because all the leaf litter and all the organic matter in the forest s floor and in the soil burnt through. and they lived within these permanently wet soaks in the forest. and they re now gone from areas that we know 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 s what happened on our watch. and that s infinite sadness. these trees would have to be well over 500 years old, some are well over 1,000 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 out. data is emerging that the bushfires of 2020 in the hottest and driest period in australian history were on a scale never