A South African farmer planted trees to stop erosion in 1976; 50 years later, the land became a major forest-restoration experiment

A small planting on a South African farm in 1976 was meant to solve an immediate problem: stopping floodwater from washing away soil and threatening livestock. The spekboom cuttings survived, but their story did not end there.

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