There are over 25,000 different kinds of orchid plants. Twenty thousand of these live by perching on other plants. A single orchid plant may produce up to 1 million seeds.
Halt ordered to tree-cutting
Halt ordered to tree-cutting Park officials cutting down trees in a park in
Nova Scotia were ordered to put down their chainsaws by a court
injunction. A group protesting the cutting down of the trees won a
court battle to have the removal of trees stopped. The trees were
being removed because they were infested by a tree-killing beetle,
the brown spruce longhorn beetle. The opposing group, Friends of
Point Pleasant Park, claimed that the tree-cutting measure was
based on faulty science, and would do nothing but leave the park
with less trees. 16 AUGUST 2000
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