Life in a forest of giants

Nature Track

Aug 16, 2022Science & Medicine

No music, no voices. Just the sound of the mountain ash forest, recorded by the ABC's Dr Ann Jones. The mountain ash is the tallest flowering plant in the world, a eucalypt that can reach 90m in height. And beneath its a...

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