The Wollemi pine site in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area is the first declared Asset of Intergenerational Significance (AIS) in NSW. This historic declaration recognises the global significance of the Wollemi pine, and provides the strongest legal protections in …

2024年2月6日 · Hidden deep in the Blue Mountains among the steep cliffs and eucalyptus canopy lies a living fossil. The Wollemi Pine thrived 91 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The last remaining wild population of Wollemi pine is restricted to a single, isolated site in the Greater Blue Mountains, with only 46 adult trees and 43 juvenile trees. This makes this rare species extremely vulnerable to catastrophic events and at very high risk of extinction.

2024年9月10日 · The legendary Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) has captivated the world since its discovery in the Blue Mountains in 1994. Three decades later, its survival story is not over with the critically endangered conifer still at serious risk of extinction.

“They’re tough old buggers”: Blue Mountains resident Bill Grattan with his Wollemi Pines. Wolter Peeters. Only 100 adult Wollemi pines survive in the wild in a secret canyon near Sydney. When they were found in 1994, these unusual pines were …

2023年4月28日 · Wollemi pines are among the rarest plants in the world, with fewer than 100 trees left in their native habitat. They were known only by fossil records until 1994, when a thicket of about 40 massive, conifer-type trees was discovered in Wollemi National Park, in Australia’s Blue Mountains.

2014年9月21日 · Twenty years ago this month, the Wollemi Pine made headlines around the world when it was discovered in a remote canyon in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Dubbed "a living fossil", the distinctive pines captured the world's attention because it was thought they had been extinct for at least 60 million years.

It’s no surprise that the Wollemi Pine achieved overnight celebrity status and became an Australian botanical icon. There were only roughly 100 left in the wilderness that day, but from this finding NSW National Parks were able to preserve the pine from certain extinction.

2023年11月1日 · Hundreds of young Wollemi Pines have been sent to international botanic gardens to help save the species and pave the way for protecting other endangered plants. Deep within a remote canyon in the Blue Mountains about 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney, there are a small grove of secret survivors.

It is one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees and its discovery in 1994 in Sydney’s Blue Mountains is considered to be a major botanical find in human history - akin to finding a dinosaur alive today. Previously, the Wollemi Pine was thought to …