[News] who says trees can't travel and see the sights?

[moonvoice]

The many adventures of the amazing, travelling Boab tree - 700 year old boab, weighing 36 tonnes makes 3000km journey from the Kimberley in North Western Australia, to Kings Park (twenty minutes from where I live! Lol) with the blessings of its Indigenous Gija custodians.

It's things like this that reminds me how damned big Western Australia is in the first place.

Seriously, this whole thing makes me smile.

Comments

[barelyshocking.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that story is exactly what I needed to brighten my day! When I last visited the Kimberley region I remember feeling so intrigued by the Boabs and the stories of water and imprisonment.

I'll have to visit Kings Park when it arrives, say hello. I live a fifteen minute walk from the base! Takes me a bit longer to walk to the top though ;)

[qilora.livejournal.com]

:-)

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

I really hope the tree survives the transplanting! That has to be really stressful.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

King's Park has done it before - not to that degree - but they're sometimes the ones who volunteer to take a really old tree out of someone's garden if the people are just going to bulldoze it.

The boab had no other chance of life, since it was going to get killed for a highway expansion. So King's Park stepped in said, 'hai, can we give it a second chance of life? If it works, we'll give the local Aboriginals 200 boab tree babies in exchange.' And the Roadworks people who were going to kill the tree went 'okay that's a cool idea, we'll foot the $120,000 bill to try and give the tree a second chance of life.' Heh.

So essentially, that's how it came about. This wasn't a tree that would have survived if King's Park hadn't stepped in. Now, hopefully, it may get a chance.

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

Cool! This is even better!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

King's Park already has a decent collection of boab trees - so hopefully they'll know what to do to help out.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one. It's kind of cool that the public response up North has been so positive too. :)

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

That is of the awesome. Another chance at life, and a road trip at the same time? Win.

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

There are boabs at Kings Park already. How did they get them? :P

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I believe they are much younger trees; which stand a higher chance of transplantation. Anything 700 years old is a bit of a risk. Heh.

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

True... just wondering if some of those were rescues or maybe propagated at Kings Park.