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History, Archaeology and Botany of Mariana Islands. MSCA Doctoral Networks: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01-01 (101226735)

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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 1h
🎼 International Music Day 👉 At #PacificPeopleForest, we believe that to understand the history of #Rota and the #MarianaIslands, we must also listen to the voices of their communities. 🎶 #JohnnySablan holds a special place in this legacy; he is one of the pioneers of contemporary #Chamorro music.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 21h
🇲🇵 Archaeological excavation is one of the lines of research that form part of the scientific background work leading up to #PacificPeopleForest. ℹ️ Since 2022, the work carried out in #Rota has made it possible to explore, document and preserve part of its archaeological heritage.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🌿 #WorldEnvironmentalHealthDay aims to raise awareness of the importance of a healthy environment for the well-being of societies and of the environmental challenges that affect our health. ℹ️ At #PacificPeopleForest, we explore this connection from a historical perspective.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🌊 #WorldMaritimeDay 👉 For the societies of the #Pacific, the #sea has been much more than a means of transport. It has connected territories, people and cultures, and has played a vital role in providing food, facilitating the exchange of resources and transforming landscapes. #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📍At the southern tip of #Rota lies #Taipingot, a limestone formation rising approximately 143 metres above sea level. ℹ️For #PacificPeopleForest, Taipingot is a particularly significant site, very well preserved, that shows a different aspect of the #Chamorro life. 📸By @aberron.bsky.social for #PPF
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ℹ️Between 2022 and 2025 continuous archaeological research have led to progress in the documentation and preservation of the heritage of #Rota. 🔎The results expanded our understanding of the distribution of Rota’s archaeological heritage. pacificpeopleforest.csic.es/background #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
✈️Conducting fieldwork on a remote island presents a significant logistical challenge. ℹ️ These logistical constraints are a daily reality of archaeological fieldwork. But they also raise another important question: the environmental cost of doing research in such remote places. #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📸🌿 These images show Timothy Utteridge working in the field during the June 2026 campaign, observing, documenting and studying the #plants that later featured in his publications. ℹ️ A brief behind-the-scenes look at the fieldwork that forms part of our project. #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
💧 The work of #PacificPeopleForest: archaeobotanical flotation 🌱 In #archaeology, a significant proportion of the information is reconstructed from vegetal remains that are barely visible to the naked eye. 👌To recover them we use, amongst other techniques, archaeobotanical #flotation.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌾 #WorldAgricultureDay 👉 At #PacificPeopleForest, we study how communities on the #Pacificislands have used and transformed their environments over time. Through #archaeology, #history and #botany, we investigate food production practices and their relationship with changes in the island. 📸 #Taro.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🗓️ 5 September: #InternationalDayofIndigenousWomen. ℹ️ At #PacificPeopleForest, this recognition prompts us to highlight the #Chamorro women, whose communities have inhabited the #MarianaIslands for millennia and form an essential part of the history of #Rota. 📸 A Chamorro woman in #Guam (1945)
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🧪 The work of #PPF: #Pottery Analysis ℹ️ Eduy Urbina (in the first image taking measurements with the naked eye) is analysing pottery from #Rota to explore how it relates to existing pottery typologies. @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🌿 #PacificPeopleForest is a research project exploring the impact of European colonisation on the Pacific islands during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on the island of #Rota. We invite you to visit the site and follow the progress of this exciting project. 🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🐳 30 August: #InternationalWhaleSharkDay. ℹ️ Although #PacificPeopleForest focuses its research on the environmental and human history of #Rota, understanding island ecosystems means looking beyond the mainland. In the #PacificIslands, the forest and the ocean form part of the same system.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🌊 Video recorded in 2022 during a snorkeling visit to the coral reef in the northwestern area of #Rota. 🤿 Swimming through this underwater landscape is #AlexChevalier (@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social), whose work contributes to advancing our understanding of #marineecosystems. #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🌿Nature reserves in Rota and the #CNMI 🏝️The island of #Rota is home to an extensive network of terrestrial and marine protected areas managed by the CNMI. @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
💡How did the communities that inhabited the #MarianaIslands produce their food before the arrival of Europeans? This is one of the questions guiding #PacificPeopleForest’s research. pacificpeopleforest.csic.es @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
[PART 2] 🇲🇵 🌿 Three plants from the #MarianaIslands, by Timothy Utteridge. 🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
[PART 1] 🇲🇵 🌿 Three plants from the Mariana Islands, by Timothy Utteridge. 🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🗓️ 18 August: #InternationalArchaeologyDay. 📍 At #PacificPeopleForest, #archaeology is an essential tool for reconstructing the history of #Rota and understanding how #Chamorro communities interacted with their environment over the centuries. #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
[PART 2]⚠️What is life like after a #naturaldisaster? Today we’re sharing the account of Adrián García Rojo, a member of our team, who tells us how Rota is recovering in the wake of two devastating #supertyphoons in the last 3 months. 📸 Adrián García Rojo / Jesús García Sánchez #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
[PART 1]⚠️What is life like after a #naturaldisaster? Today we’re sharing the account of Adrián García Rojo, a member of our team, who tells us how #Rota is recovering in the wake of two devastating #supertyphoons in the last 3 months. 📸Adrián García Rojo / Jesús García Sánchez #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
💡What can the remains of a galleon tell us about the environmental history of the #Pacific? ⚓At #PacificPeopleForest, we study precisely this complex web of relationships between societies, landscapes and ecosystems.  To know more👉 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🗺️ How did the indigenous peoples of the #PacificIslands chart the ocean? 🛶 For centuries, navigators from the #MarshallIslands developed what are known as ‘stick charts’, one of the most unique forms of cartography in history.  🔗 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es 📸 thenonist.com #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🗓️9 August: International Day of the World’s #IndigenousPeoples. ℹ️At #PacificPeopleForest, this date holds special significance. Our project is based in #Rota (#NorthernMarianaIslands), home to the #Chamorro people, the indigenous people of the #MarianaIslands. 📸 Ryuzo Torii (1870-1953) (Wikipedia)
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🆘The island of #Rota needs our help. ℹ️Our team at #PacificPeopleForest continues to work on the ground following the devastating passage of Super Typhoon #Bavi. 👉We invite you to support From Luta for Luta, an organisation that is coordinating aid to meet the most urgent needs. 🔗 lnkd.in/gUTt52bQ
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🌀 Super #Typhoon #Bavi: the experience of Francesco Susca, one of the PhD students at #PacificPeopleForest. 📸 Day 1: the shelter. Day 2: the super typhoon comes. Day 3: the destruction. (Pictures by Francesco Susca) Day 3: the last day at the shelter. (Picture by Ethel Siriban's daughter). #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ℹ️1 of the key steps in studying the impact of #colonization in the #MarianaIslands is understanding the long history of human occupation. 👉Analysing material culture from the sequence of human habitation is an important aspect, undertaken by Eduy Urbina's dissertation within #PacifidPeopleForest.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🌳 The Forest Inventory and Analysis (#FIA) team has launched a new decennial forest inventory assessment campaign on #Rota. ℹ️ This programme provides insights into how the #forests are changing. For more info: PNW-FIA Pacific Islands Database 🔗 acortar.link/FzbuMZ #PacificPeopleForest
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PNW-FIA Pacific Islands Database | US Forest Service Research and Development
The Pacific Northwest unit of the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (PNW-FIA) conducts resource inventories for the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Data from these inventories are available in two formats: an SQLite database and a set of comma delimited text files.
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🌏Meet the team! 📍Jesús García Sánchez has participated in several field campaigns within #NAOProject. He's a member of #PacificPeopleForest and has led the field survey in '26 with Adrian García Rojo and Project PI María Cruz Berrocal. More in the ‘Team’ section of our website👉 acortar.link/seCyr4
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🎼 The history of the #MarianaIslands is not only preserved in #archaeological sites or #historical archives. It also lives on in their #language, #music and #traditions. 🇲🇵 One of the leading figures in this cultural preservation is Johnny Sablan, pioneer of contemporary #Chamorro music. 📸guampedia
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🐋23 July: #WorldWhaleandDolphinDay 🐬These animals play a key role in the functioning of #marineecosystems and form part of the natural and cultural heritage of many #Pacific communities, where they have featured in stories, traditions and ways of understanding the environment. #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🎙️ The podcast from @elDiario.es travels to #Rota to explore the history and culture of the #Chamorro people, shaped by European #colonisation and, today, by #climatechange, as we have just seen following the passage of super typhoons #Sinlaku and #Bavi. 👉 acortar.link/qVuyxQ #PacificPeopleForest
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🎙 PODCAST | Los aliens que decían “adobo” y los últimos de las Islas Marianas
Primero les arrasaron los colonizadores, llegados de todas las partes del mundo. Luego ha sido el abandono y ahora el cambio climático. Sus heridas tienen capas, que cuentan su historia, y la nuestra
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
ℹ️ Prof. Frederic Lens, senior researcher at #PacificPeopleForest, is a plant anatomist specialising in the evolutionary and functional changes of plants through time. Find out more about Frederic in the ‘Team’ section of our new website 👉 acortar.link/seCyr4 #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
📰 Don’t miss this new article by @aberron.bsky.social about James Manglona, the conservation manager on the island of #Rota, who is fighting to restore one of the rarest and most valuable species on the planet. Full article here (*in Spanish) 👉 acortar.link/vvkt7K #PacificPeopleForest
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James Manglona, el guardián de los últimos ‘árboles de fuego’ del Pacífico
El responsable de conservación de la isla de Rota, en las Marianas, lucha por recuperar una de las especies más raras y valiosas del planeta, además de trabajar para que sus habitantes sean autosuficientes
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
📰Ancient DNA reveals 5 streams of migration into Micronesia and potential practices of matrilocality among the early Pacific seafarers that settled the Mariana Islands. 🔝We’re sharing this interesting article from @science.org. Be sure to read it! 👉https://acortar.link/9Wbnen #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🎙️ Would you like to find out more about our project from @aberron.bsky.social? Don’t miss his appearance on the morning programme ‘Mañana más’ on @radio5rne.rtve.es. It starts at 1 minute 21 seconds (*In Spanish). 👉 acortar.link/Q9xjJ5 #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🎥 Despite the hardship caused by super typhoons Sinlaku and Bavi, everyone is working together to try and ease the situation a little. ℹ️ You can see our colleagues Adrián, Jesús and Inez working together with the volunteers. *Video: Facebook Zori Talks. 🔗 acortar.link/hPbmX1 #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🎙️Another appearance by @aberron.bsky.social discussing the #PacificPeopleForest project. Don’t miss his interview (in Spanish) from the 11-minute mark👉 acortar.link/ntEjX2 @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificIslands #MarianaIslands
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La hora random: el superniño. un supervilano - La hora rándom - Julia en la onda
José Luis Gallego, Miguel Ángel Cagijal, el Barroquista y Antonio Martínez Ron nos hablan del Superniño y sus consecuencias, de los cambios que han sufrido las Orcas y de la aparición de un nuevo Vela...
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🦈🐋14 July: International #SharkDay and #WorldOrcaDay. 👉Studying the interaction between people and their #environment —terrestrial and marine—enables us to better understand how #island ecosystems have changed. 📸Recording of orcas (Pacific). Jesús García Sánchez, NAO project. #PacificPeopleForest
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ℹ️ The #MarianaIslands have just experienced 2 of the most destructive super typhoons in their history. Don’t miss this article (*in Spanish) in @eldiario.es by @aberron.bsky.social, a journalist and science communicator who recently visited the #PacificPeopleForest project. 🔗 acortar.link/9ghhIv
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En las islas del Pacífico que ya sufren un dramático adelanto del ‘Superniño’: "Esto es un aviso para el resto del mundo"
El archipiélago de las Marianas acaba de vivir dos de los supertifones más destructivos de su historia antes de que empiece oficialmente la temporada: son solo un anticipo de lo que El Niño de alta in...
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
📍 ¿Did colonialism have the same impact across all the #MarianaIslands? 🇲🇵 At #PacificPeopleForest, we start from the hypothesis that Rota may have experienced a different colonial impact to that of #Guam. For more info about our project 👉 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es #PacificIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
And that's Antonio! (the guy in the 4 pictures :-)
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📢 Last month, during the #PacificPeopleForest expedition to #Rota, we were delighted to welcome science journalist and communicator @aberron.bsky.social. 🙏 Thank you, Antonio, for visiting us and for all the work you’re doing to raise awareness of our project. 🔗 acortar.link/iTRLvR #MarianaIslands
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🆕 Statement: the Northern #MarianaIslands have once again faced an unprecedented weather event. 🔗 acortar.link/89PcE0 @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📰#PacificPeopleForest is featured in a new report by journalist @aberron.bsky.social, highlighting our #MSCA Doctoral Network and recent fieldwork on #Rota (#NorthernMarianaIslands).🔗https://acortar.link/iTRLvR @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es @naturalis.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🌱 Every 7 July we mark the #InternationalSoilConservationDay. ℹ️ Understanding the past of the island’s soils helps us tackle some of the major challenges of the present, such as #biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and #climatechange. #PacificPeopleForest #PacificIslands #Rota
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🌐 #PacificPeopleForest continues to make progress. Our website is also evolving alongside our project. We invite you to meet every member of our interdisciplinary and transnational team in the ‘Team’ section of our new website. 👉 pacificpeopleforest.csic.es/team @incipitcsic.bsky.social @csic.es
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🌿As part of the #PacificPeopleForest Doctoral Network, we are developing a comprehensive #Botanical Reference Collection that will support current and future research while ensuring that valuable specimens remain accessible to the global #scientificcommunity. 🔗pacificpeopleforest.csic.es/background
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Pacific People Forest @pacificppleforest.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🌳 28 June: #WorldTreeDay. At #PacificPeopleForest, we want to mark this day by focusing on the #ifit, the tree that inspired our logo and symbolises the close relationship between human communities and the forests of the #MarianaIslands. More about this tree in our blog👉https://acortar.link/ezXmfS
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