'Nursery' of hardwood seedlings, 1978/9 expedition.  Seedlings were taken from various crowded sites beneath the limited number of remaining hardwoods.  At the end of the expedition, these were planted out in clearings left from tent sites in Peros Banhos, in the hope they would speed a recovery of native hardwood tree growth.  On a revisit in 1996, there were numerous trees of approximately the right age growing in the old camp site in Peros Banhos.  Whether these came from these seedlings cannt be proven - but it looked likely given that there were almost only coconut trees there before.

