Madrid rushes to clone trees downed by snowstorm
These were cloned in a lab
Location: Madrid, Spain
Agroforestry specialists are genetically copying valuable specimens
after Storm Filomena damaged half a million of Madrid's trees
Date: January 9, 2021
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) FRANCISCO MOLINA, HEAD OF AGROFORESTRY AT MADRID'S IMIDRA RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, SAYING:
"We are collecting stakes from this century old oak that fell during Storm Filomena. We are collecting stakes to take them through a cloning process to get genetically identical offspring from the fallen tree."
Researchers expect it to take decades to replace the lost trees