The Ancients : Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania - Andrew Darby Genre:Conservation of the environment is on the verge of

is on the verge of dropping out

They've just never known why

but in his ambition for wealth at any cost

and it could bring the world to its knees

He's also one of the Big Apple's earliest punk rockers

The Ancients : Discovering the world's oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania - Andrew Darby Genre:Conservation of the environment is on the verge ofDeep in Tasmania's remote valleys and mountains grow trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many are thousands of years old, some over ten millennia. Prize winning nature writer Andrew Darby takes us on an island odyssey to discover these ancient survivors: the mysterious King's Lomatia, perhaps the oldest single tree alive; the primeval King Billy, Pencil and Huon pines with their stories of human admiration and destruction; and the