It was the botanical equivalent of finding dinosaurs alive – but now the Wollemi pine faces a new threat to its fragile existence – fungal disease, possibly from unauthorised hikers carrying in the Phytophthora mould.

Read more in this article by Marcus Strom 

You can read more about Dr Heidi Zimmer, Dr Cathy Offord and colleagues research here – Establishing a Wild, Ex Situ Population of a Critically Endangered Shade-Tolerant Rainforest Conifer: A Translocation Experiment