'Hoax' article on the Amazon correctly identifies threats to Brazil-Peru border regionIn December the World News Daily Report (WNDR) published an article claiming that the "world's oldest tree" had been cut down along the Brazil-Peru border in the Amazon. It stated that a "giant Samauma tree that is thought to be over 5,800 years old" in the "Matsés Indigenous Reserve" had been "accidentally" felled by illegal loggers, and quoted "local tribesman leader Tahuactep of the Matsés tribe" saying it had "brought darkness upon not only our people, but the whole world."Some media responded by reporting it as fact, others by calling it a hoax. The Independent described it as "one of the 11 weirdest hoaxes of 2014", while the Washington Post asserted that the WNDR is a "hoax-news site whose stories -- we repeat! -- are always fake" and "the world's oldest tree is actually "somewhere in eastern California" and "only 5,062 years old." Continue reading...
The truth behind the story on the 'world's oldest tree' being cut down
27. února 2015 7:00
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2015/feb/26/the-truth-worlds-oldest-tree-cut-down
Zdroj: The Guardian
