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How Rapa Nui Lost a Tree, Only to Have It Sprout Up Elsewhere
The tree that goes by toromiro has been a fragile expat for more than a half-century. Little Sophora toromiro, is far from ...
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Rapa Nui's early inhabitants survived despite the odds
Rapa Nui has long stood as a symbol of ecocide ... The inhabitants, it's been said, cut down all the trees to build the Moai, and for firewood; they killed seabirds and depleted the soil ...
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Exploring Easter Island, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands
Rapa Nui National Park covers half of the island ... come together to support one another during events like the banana tree trunk toboggan run. Hoteliers on Easter Island know better than ...
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First Inhabitants
On Rapa Nui, the more modern ... settlers would have planted the plants that they brought with them: banana trees, taro root, and perhaps even the sweet potato. Enigma of the Sweet Potato The ...