Tina Buijs, TNC contract park guard supervisor, studies moss covered trunks of rare old Alerce trees, (Fitzroya cupressoides), the world's second oldest living species found in a small grove of old-growth trees still standing in The Nature Conservancy's Reserva Costera Valdiviana, (Valdivian Coastal Reserve), a 147,500 acre site comprising temperate rainforest and 36km of Pacific coastline south of Valdivia, Chile.
Mark Godfrey © 2004 The Nature Conservancy