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Olive trees can live for 4,000 years: What’s their secret? ...
By EarthToday  - September 02, 2026
The tree known as 'Oliveira do Mouchão', found in the municipality of Abrantes, is thought to be the oldest in the country at 3,350 years old. It is an olive tree and "a contemporary of the Phoenicians, Celtiberians and Romans". According to UTAD, at the beginning of 2022 it was still "producing olives as if in the flower of youth, despite a trunk gnawed away by the ravages of time".

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Humans have learned to fear ‘bugs’, but we shouldn’t – life as we know it hinges on invertebrates | Chris Packham

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