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A NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service firefighter amid some of the Wollemi pines he helped save.

Firefighters have saved the only known natural grove of the world-famous Wollemi pines from destruction during the record-breaking bushfires in NSW.

ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society associate professor Cris Brack said fossil evidence indicates that the trees existed between 200 and 100 million years ago and were once present across the whole of Australia - and some of these would thousands of years old themselves.

Read the full article at the Sydney Morning Herald website.