These ancient trees need fire to reproduce, but modern wildfires are now killing them

Flora and fauna have been an integral part of nature and its exisence. And every story of their survial in the wild is a reminder that nature knows it all. One of the rarest stories of survival is of a rare variety of trees that have been surviving for decades not because of soil and rain but fire. Yes, you read it right. We are talking about Giant Sequoias, giant trees that have survived for thousands of years thanks to fire. It is reported that these giant trees, some of the oldest and biggest living things on earth, evolved in landscapes where occasional low-intensity fires burned away the undergrowth, opened their cones and created ideal conditions for seedlings to take hold. But wildfires today are behaving differently than they did in the past—and the consequences are proving catastrophic.