FINDING THE MOTHER TREE (HB)

Suzanne Simard was working in the forest service when she discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi. At the centre lie the Mother Trees: the powerful entities that nurture their kin and sustain the forest. Though her ground-breaking findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by the data. Here she reveals how the complex cycle of forest life - on which we rely for our existence - offers profound lessons about resilience and kinship, and must be preserved before it's too late.