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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Petra Stock

A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day

Beau Miles drinks tea beside a fire beneath young trees
A ‘profound moment’ … Beau Miles enjoys a cup of tea in the forest he planted four years ago. Photograph: Mitch Drummond

On a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small forest, which wasn’t there before.

Flowering gums and she-oaks reach up nine metres tall, birds nest in their branches, while a giant tiger snake slides through the grass below.

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