Death Of A Landscape: Why Have Thousands Of Trees Dropped Dead In New South Wales?

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Ghost gum. Mark Roy/Flickr CC BY 2.0

Trees die – that’s a fact of life. But is the death of an entire iconic landscape of Eucalyptus in the Cooma-Monaro region of New South Wales natural?

For over a decade, large stands of Eucalyptus viminalis, commonly known as Ribbon Gum or Manna Gum, have been gradually declining in health, and now stand like skeletons in huge tree graveyards.