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Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Blog Archive » The Last Tree of Ténéré:
The Ténéré wastelands of northeastern Niger were once populated by a forest of trees. By the 20th century, desertification had wiped out all but one solitary acacia. The Tree of Ténéré, as it came to be called, had no companions for 400 km in every direction. Its roots reached nearly 40 m deep into the sand. In 1973, the tree was knocked over by a drunken Libyan truck driver.
400 KM in any direction, the drunk driver runs into anything but a tree.
