SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian firefighters battling bush blazes ringing Sydney are taking special action to protect stands of historic Wollemi pines which are among the earth's oldest plants, dating back 150 million years to dinosaur times.
The native Australian conifers, from the Jurassic era, were discovered only in 1994 in a still-secret canyon in the Wollemi National Park, in the Blue Mountains area on Sydney's outskirts, and remain extremely rare.
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