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Last Tree Standing
Series: November 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
Length: 00:01:30
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You know, I'd like to meet the person who cut down the last palm tree on Easter Island. What were they thinking? We'll never know. But what we do know is that this speck of an island off the coast of Chile was the site of an environmental catastrophe...
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