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Invasive soil-borne disease made worse by wet weather, threatens bunya pines

Hundreds of ancient bunya pines in a Southern Queensland National Park are facing a growing threat as wet weather heightens the spread of an invasive soil-borne disease.

The recent rain and upcoming third La Niña summer present the perfect conditions for phytophthora to spread which has researchers, park rangers and traditional owners of the Bunya Mountains National Park worried.

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