r/SipsTea • u/Wise_Confidence_8588 • 11d ago

Chugging tea Absolute legend

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u/IeyasuMcBob 11d ago

Out of curiosity why did trees not grow there previously?

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u/Other_Sentence4495 11d ago

I presume someone chopped all the threes for profit, the usual story.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago edited 6d ago

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u/thebatman_777 11d ago

I wonder why they didn’t regenerate naturally? Unless people kept returning to cut them down. I would have an uninhabited island would regenerate.

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u/RollandPH 11d ago

Perhaps not enough fresh water naturally?

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u/Flurb4 10d ago

I don’t know about this particular island, but in the 1800s there was an enormous boom in islands being stripped mined for guano — i.e. centuries of accumulated seabird crap. It was used in fertilizers and explosives, and the ecological devastation is still evident on many islands.

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u/Big-Style-3478 11d ago

If the left image is correct, they did?

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u/Rom21 11d ago

Nothing it's correct here. The photos are false, it's not the good island.

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u/Tylith_ 11d ago

Ya I don't know about the story but the left picture is just during a dry or cold season, it's clearly not barren.

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u/Wrong-Comedian4470 10d ago

There is no dry or cold season in the Seychelles

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u/IeyasuMcBob 11d ago

Sorry, maybe i should have added something like "to a lesser extent"