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Christina Hourigan

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Historical Geography #planthumanities PhD student at Royal Holloway & RBG Kew researching the cultural history of arboretums. Book author, former magazine editor, gardener, cat servant

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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Among the Giants, a year at Kew's Arboretum by myself and Carolyn Fry is now out in #paperback too and we got a lovely 5 star review recently. Follow the seasonal stories of the arboricultural team who look after the 11,000 #trees at #KewGardens #GaiaPublishing #author #historian #writing
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Look what just arrived! The paperback of our book #AmongtheGiants has landed! 😍 beautiful cover. Available at Kew and all good book shops from 30 July! #KewGardens #TreeGang #OctopusPublishing #GaiaBooks #KewPublishing @rbgkew.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you're excited about the NASA #Artemis II Moon mission blasting off later today, why not check out the intriguing story of the #Moon #trees by Melanie Ford here in @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal!!?? 😁🌳🚀🌚 www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
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Where on Earth are the Moon Trees? | Plant Perspectives
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planthums-uk.bsky.social @planthums-uk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Check out our @planthums-uk.bsky.social web pages at kew.org/science/inte... Learn who we are, what we do, and how you can work with us on #PlantHumanities #research @rbgkew.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Historical Geographers!! Do you have any news, cfps, conference sessions, papers, books or events you would like to alert others to in our next #HGRG spring newsletter? Get in touch with @hcraddock.bsky.social by 13 February and spread the word! #historicalgeography #RGS #news
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Patrícia Silveira @patriciasgeo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Lovely way to start my weekend by reading this amazing book! A super relevant book for historical geographers. Congrats to the authors!
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Cristian Croitoru @cristiana2.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📣 CFP | RGS-IBG 2026 #HGRG invites PGR & ECR papers for the New & Emerging Research in Historical Geography Session! All stages, any place/period welcome. 🕔 Deadline: 23 Feb 2026 More information below 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Call for Papers: New and Emerging Research in Historical Geography (RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2026)
DEADLINE: 17:00 (BST) Monday 23rd February 2026 This session provides a space for postgraduates and early-career scholars undertaking research in Historical Geography to present at a major conference ...
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Patrícia Silveira @patriciasgeo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📢Call for session sponsorship, great opportunity for scholars. 🗓️Deadline: 6 February 2026. www.rgs.org/research/ann...
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Historical Geography Research Group | Conference sponsorship
Inviting proposals for session sponsorship that engage with the Chair’s theme, as well as others focusing on all areas of historical geography.
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum
Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.
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Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The London Mayor's Office recently announced a scheme to reintroduce storks to London. From 1890 storks formed one of the attractions of Kew Gardens:'their quaint appearance and philosophical habits make them rather in keeping with a botanical garden' (Journal of the Kew Guild, 1902).
1918 poster by Fred Taylor of storks at Kew Gardens, produced by the Underground Railways, for distribution to troops overseas.
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I'll be talking about the Hope Botanic Gardens in Jamaica on 27th Jan, using records from the colonial archives at Kew Gardens 🌴 Signup here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empires-pl...
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Empires, Plants & Gardening: Kew in Jamaica
The second talk in our series exploring the influence of political and economic power on garden-making
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It was great to sign some copies of our new #book 'Among the Giants, a year in Kew's Arboretum' at #KewPublishing @rbgkew.bsky.social last week. It was such a joy to spend the seasons with Kew's Tree Gang and write about Kew's beautiful trees, arboriculture and climate resilience.
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue! Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
Image of the fruit and seeds of the ackee tree in front of leaves.
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planthums-uk.bsky.social @planthums-uk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
It's here!!! 200 pages of #research articles, #narrative #nonfiction, #poetry & #reviews - all on #trees! Many thanks to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, @treeseeker.bsky.social & all our contributors url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZIoCojPZH...
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Check out the new issue of #PlantPerspectives on the #arborealhumanities! Including my own first published paper 🎉 whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index #envhum #envhist #history #historicalgeography #planthumanities #culturalgeography #RoyalHolloway #KewGardens #RGS #Archives #treebiographies
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Plant Perspectives
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Delighted to announce that our special issue of #PlantPerspectives @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal is NOW LIVE 🎊🎉🍾🥂 See: whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳 Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
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Patrícia Silveira @patriciasgeo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
📯Very excited to see the new HGRG Newsletter! There is a special section to the ICHG in China. Events, publications, grants and reports all in this wonderful edition. Enjoy!! 📖 Read it here: hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u... @rgsibg.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @lghgseminar.bsky.social
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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging' Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
Poster for the event Plants, Memory Belonging
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Fascinating talk by #author Sara Lodge on her #newbook about #Victorian #FemaleDetectives at #ChiswickBookFestival today! Can't wait to read it. #History #publishing #research #archives #yaleuniversitypress
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
#Historicalgeography #HGRG #RGS #planthumanities #envhum #Geography #history #archives Call out for any events or news in the world of historical geography that you lovely people would like included in the next HGRG newsletter. Only a few days left before the autumn issue is published. Let me know!
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open! Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS #envhum #envhist
Image of Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company workshops with smoke escaping from tower. Reference: CO 1069/280 from The National Archives, UK.
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
'Plant Perspectives' is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'. See attached for more details; and you can register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies #envhist
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Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series. Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...
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Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive
What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Capital grains: the urban trees getting a second life
Furniture maker Bruce Saunders co-founded Fallen & Felled to give a second life to urban trees destined for the chipper
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Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
What is the most beautiful flowering tree in the world? Find out in my essay for Plant Perspectives, ed. by the wonderful Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan. Also features a brilliant essay on ackee by Heather Craddock, @planthums-uk.bsky.social @treeseeker.bsky.social @hcraddock.bsky.social
Front and back cover of Plant Perspectives vol 2.2 with image of installation 'Of the Oak' by Marshmallow Laser Feast in Kew Gardens 2025 on the cover.Amherstia nobilis, hand-coloured lithograph by Maxim Gauci, based on drawing by Vishnuprasad from Nathaniel Wallich, Plantae Asiaticae Rariores 1 (1830).
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Happy #Publication Day to #AmongtheGiants, a year at the #Kew Arboretum. #OctopusBooks #KewPublishing #KewGardens #gardenhistory #trees #science #climateresilience #climatechange #urbantrees Available at all good book stores now!
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Here's a preview of the cover and contents of 'Plant Perspectives' 2.2, a special issue guest edited by Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan at Kew Gardens; forthcoming in October. #openaccess #subscribetoopen @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Find out more about 'Among the Giants' here: www.waterstones.com/book/among-t...
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Among the Giants by Kew Gardens | Waterstones
Buy Among the Giants by Kew Gardens from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Discount klaxon! My new #book is 25%off preorder this week only at #Waterstones #WPreorder. Come with us and discover the fascinating work of #Kew's #TreeGang, the history of Kew's #Arboretum and #trees and how research is helping staff prepare the collection for #climatechange.
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planthums-uk.bsky.social @planthums-uk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Coming this autumn!! #PLANT #PERSPECTIVES 2(2) special issue: #Tree #Cultures & #Arboreal #Humanities eds @treeseeker.bsky.social & Caroline Cornish #research articles, narrative #non_fiction, #poetry & reviews whp-journals.co.uk/PP @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
'Of the Oak' 2025: digital art installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast @rbgkew.bsky.social
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Here's my lovely co-author Carolyn Fry on Instagram doing the REVEAL: www.instagram.com/reel/DMiF7ng...
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hot off the press! 🥳 Advance copies of my new book written with Carolyn Fry have just arrived! Among the Giants, a year at the Kew Arboretum reveals season by season the amazing work of Kew's Tree Gang as they look after 11,000 trees & delves into the history of the arboretum. Pre-order now!! 💚
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
On a similar theme of tree loss in a landscape, here's a beautiful piece from the wonderful #Arnoldia magazine... 'Its absence is not emptiness. It is a space now filled with memory, with gratitude...everything meaningful leaves a mark' - Maureen Danahy arboretum.harvard.edu/arnoldia-sto...
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A Maple in Memoriam - Arnold Arboretum
There once stood a grand old tree, planted in 1881, whose roots reached deep into the soil and deeper still into the hearts of those who passed beneath its broad […]
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
An important read and vital question. How do we help people appreciate the #cultural and social value of #trees as well as their biological value? BBC News - The #SycamoreGap case has shed light on a deeper issue with trees - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Sycamore Gap case has shed light on a deeper issue with trees
The felling has prompted calls for stricter legal protections for other trees and drawn attention to wider issues
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
BBC News - Heatwaves leave London's trees under extreme stress www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Heatwaves leave London's urban forest under extreme stress
Three heatwaves and a lack of rain have left London's trees struggling - but what can be done?
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Statue to "first British female landscape designer" placed in Wandsworth. BBC News - Statue of professional female gardener unveiled www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Wandsworth park unveils statue of female landscape gardener
The bronze statue of Fanny Wilkinson is installed on an Edwardian drinking fountain in Wandsworth.
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Really looking forward to #GardensandEmpires conference tomorrow at @britishlibrary.bsky.social with @rbgkew.bsky.social and @englishheritage.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social. Such a good programme of speakers!
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Absolute Units returns!!! In this ep, we speak to environmental historian @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social about her research into pigs in medieval England. Topics include: taking your hogs for a walk, the Hapsburg chin of domestic pigs, Babe 2, and so much more. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units: three giant rams float over the English countryside.
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I absolutely love this article from @plantperspectives.bsky.social about the web of memories and human connections with birch trees in the author's life. Beautiful. whitehorsepress.blog/2025/05/22/b...
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A BIRCH MEMORY WEB
Mykyta Peregrym’s essay, originally published in Plant Perspectives 2.1 (April 2025) explores the profound and intricate connections between personal memories and birch trees throughout the a…
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📓 Naturalists' Notebooks is still open! Join us Fri 25 July, 4–5pm, for a curator-led tour with our Head of Collections. Explore how notebooks shaped centuries of natural science — and maybe bring your own. 🎟 Book now: buff.ly/d6pXgGs
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
A wonderful day for my first visit to The Yorkshire Arboretum. So many interesting trees related to Kew's collections. Loved their interpretation tagline 'Stories Trees Tell'!
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Interesting paper just highlighted in The Times on how Chinese temples were/are refuges for rare #trees. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Religious temples are long-term refuges for old trees in human-dominated landscapes in China
Huang et al. find that religious temples have served as long-term refuges for old trees and certain threatened tree species in human-dominated landscapes. Historically, the extensive construction of t...
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Urban Tree Festival @urbantreefest.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Today is BIG Saturday! We’ve got loads to chose from so if you haven’t already head over to out programme page to see what there is for you! Don’t forget our family open day in Hackney!😍🌳
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Spent a lovely morning sharing tree tales from Kew's #Archives for the #UrbanTreeFestival in London. From paving the city's streets with sweet gum and jarrah wood to conserving our native black poplar. Kew's Archive is a rich seam of reports, maps, correspondence, scrap books and more 🌳🌲🌴💚
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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our Library & Archive teams are hosting a show-and-tell session on 12 May as part of @urbantreefest.bsky.social! 🌳 Come along to see great materials all to do with Kew's trees. It's first come first serve, so make sure to book soon! ⏰ #KewLA Find out more 👇 urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...
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Trees in Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives — Urban Tree Festival
Kew Gardens’ Archives and Illustrations teams will host show and tell sessions relating to themes of colonialism and deforestation, historic uses of trees, and the role of trees in cities.
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Come along to this next Monday @kewgardens Library and Archives for some intriguing tales about trees and beautiful illustrations on show. urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...
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Trees in Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives — Urban Tree Festival
Kew Gardens’ Archives and Illustrations teams will host show and tell sessions relating to themes of colonialism and deforestation, historic uses of trees, and the role of trees in cities.
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A long time ago in a manuscript far, far away.... Happy #StarWarsDay! – #MayTheFourthBeWithYou, always.
An illumination from a Medieval Manuscript that shows a character bearing a striking resemblance to Yoda, a small green humanoid wearing an orange cloak. 📜 Royal 10 E IV, f. 30
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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
🐦🎶 Tomorrow is #DawnChorusDay - a perfect opportunity to wake up early and enjoy the beauty of early morning birdsong. As dawn emerges, songbirds start singing to attract a mate and mark their territory. Top tip 💡 Use the Merlin Bird ID app to improve your bird ID skills!
A wren perched on a branch, singing with its beak open.
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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Uganda's shea nut trees under threat as charcoal favoured instead of beauty creams - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Uganda's shea nut trees under threat as charcoal favoured instead of beauty creams
One man's struggle to save Uganda's once-profitable trees that produce shea butter.
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