The oldest tree of Great Britain – yew growing in Scotland in the yard of the church of the village Fortingall in Perthshire began changing sex. The Independent writes about that.
Earlier the tree used to produce pollen whereupon the botanists relate it to the male plants. Nevertheless, now there are red berries with the seeds what is the attribute of the female yew. British botanists came to conclusion that yew started the process of sex change.
It could seem strange, however, many trees change sex. Usually such processes happen only with the part of plant’s coma. In the case of Fortingall Yew several branches from the area of the outer coma changed sex», as the scientist Max Colman working in Royal botanic garden of Edinburg told.
The botanists gathered berries grown on the yew and intend to investigate them in the frame of the project on European yews variety. The researchers are sure that they have the possibility to find «the children» of Fortingall Yew throughout Europe.
According to the researchers, the age of Fortingall Yew exceeds five thousand years. It means that yew long-liver is older than, for instance, Stonehenge. As the local legend states, in the shade of this yew Pontius Pilate was born.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
Protected environmental zone with the square of more than 1.5 million square kilometers will be located in Ross Sea. The agreement has been signed by European Union and 24 more countries, including Russia.
Since 1907 the population of mammals, fishes, birds, amphibia and reptiles has reduced by almost 60%, as it is said in the report of World Wild Nature Fund.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
At the beach Legzira located at the Atlantic coast of Morocco, there was a wreckage of one of two stone arches that used to be the famous sightseeing of the country. The Guardian reports about that.
The delegates of the conference of Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) happened in Republic of South Africa voted for prohibition of international trade in African gray parrots.
The efforts of zoologists, ecologists and significant financial expenses that have been invested in the program of salvation of ounce brought their fruits. Particularly, the predator has been seen more often by the citizens of several provinces of Afghanistan that ounce preferred choosing as its habitat.
The largest in the world kind of apes from the genus of gorillas, particularly, Eastern gorilla residing within the territory of Democratic Republic Congo is on the edge of extinction because of the illegal hunting.
USA will invest $15 million in the program on fight with the climatic change in Central Asia, the head of state department John Kerry claimed at the meeting with ministers of foreign affairs of five Central Asian countries in Washington.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
The experts of travel web-portal Travelbird.nl has defined that the cheapest beach in the world is situated in Vietnam. Cua Dai is located in popular among travelers city Hoi An in the central province of the country Quảng Nam.
The list of UNESCO World Heritage that connects the most significant landmarks of the planet either man-made or natural is reviewed annually. This year at the 40-th session of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee which ended in Istanbul on the 20-th of July, the list included 21 sites more.
Almost fifty million trees have been planted in Indian state Uttar Pradesh during the 11-th of July. The native land has been greened up by 800 thousand volunteers.
