Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Mongabay
Jun 8, 2026, 3:46 pm266 ptsTop
Deep in Taiwan’s misty mountains, researchers have confirmed the tallest tree in the country: a thousand-year-old fir tree higher than a 20-story building, which they’ve named “the heaven sword of the Da’an River.” Climbers scaled the tree and dropped a measuring tape from the top to the forest floor…

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