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A short blog article with a picture of both the tree and the metal sculpture that replaced it: http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=726 (found via BoingBoing - http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/06/sad_fate_of_the_last.html) --HunterZ 19:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh man, when I got to the part about the drunk Libyan truck driver, I nearly died laughing.Bobanny 07:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that was amazing... I got dizzy laughing so hard.Momo Hemo 16:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a very important article about the importance of preserving nature and the threats it faces.

Missing Image?[edit]

The modern Tree of Ténéré, as seen in December 1985

The second image in the article seems to be missing. I'll edit out the link but could someone please check to see if they can still load the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arbre-neu2.jpg. If it's missing (and is not merely missing for me) then it appears to also have gone missing from wikimedia commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Arbre-neu2.jpg. Random Passer-by 01:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Map Scale[edit]

The article mentions that the tree appears on a map with the scale 1:4,000,000. I was able to find it on a map (in the 7th Edition of National Geographic's Atlas of the World) with the scale 1:8,790,000. Why is the scale 1:4,000,000 significant, as opposed to some larger one?Spurius Furius Fusus 20:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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This may be the saddest story I've ever heard

Yeah, this damn truck driver. How stupid can a single human being be?

I fail to understand how anyone manage to hit the only tree in a 500 mile radius, no matter how drunk one is. Primadog 07:49, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is really sad.. --Vosselmans 16:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In Desmond Bagley's novel Flyaway it's stated that a French truck driver hit it in 1960. Anyone know if this is true? Mr Larrington (talk) 15:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It should read at the dadication plate of the iron tree "To Human Stupidity. Even though it is much greater and will endure much longer than this monument..." Pjsouza 22:17, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My god, how can anyone, drunk or dead, manage to hit the single tree in a 500 mile-ish radius? It just doesn't seem possible. Anyways, I too, would like to know how old this tree was. Can anyone post a link for that? Thanks ~Who says life is short? It's the longest thing a human ever does~ (talk) 01:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Around 300, apparently [1]. --Illythr (talk) 13:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:'( Skullers (talk) 20:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article in the Wikipedia store[edit]

I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on this article: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2480746 Arbre du Tenere] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No indication of the age of the tree? Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 19:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How old was this tree?[edit]

Does anybody have an idea how old this tree was (or might have been)? --Paul Pot (talk) 21:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This was answered above: 300. --Voidvector (talk) 12:03, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need A French Translator[edit]

Here is a great page with several photos of the Tenere Tree but it is in French. Can someone figure out what it says and see about copyright issues with posting some of the images on Wikipedia? Gallery of the Tree

Online discussion forums cannot be used as references as they are unverifiable. vıd ıoman 23:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Those are photos in chronologic order. It says that a truck allready hit it between 1959 and 1967 and lost one trunk. But "forums cannot be used as references as...". --82.227.142.250 (talk) 09:51, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to the Desmond Bagley novel Flyaway it was hit by a French lorry driver in 1960, though how accurate this may be... Mr Larrington (talk) 10:38, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Structure Change[edit]

I like this article and I read it often. I think I figured out why such a horrible thing is so funny. The article starts out by describing the rarity of the tree. It then proceeds to describe the challenges the tree faced to survive. After that, the article talks about how sacred the tree is to the local population. In the next sentence, it gets hit by a drunk driver. No mention before this that the tree is no longer standing besides the word was. My suggestion for this article if you want to tone down the humor (which is not my desire for the article), would be to put in the intro paragraph something that more specifically states the tree was run down.Momo Hemo (talk) 15:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Get the facts straight[edit]

It's not the only isolated tree in the Tenere: I have a photo of another 40 miles west of the A-d-T, just south of the basalt massif of the Adrar Azzouagar. It too is an Acacia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.105.113.73 (talk) 04:14, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it starts off in the past tense--the tree was, etc. vıd ıoman 03:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I note that Fachi, an oasis town (barely) less than 100 miles to the east, shows numerous trees in an image search. It even relies upon those trees for dates. Despite its picturesque isolation, this was *not* the only tree within 240 miles.2620:0:E50:1037:95C0:CC3F:6F9:9774 (talk) 00:27, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More sources[edit]

I found a bunch of sources and added them to the Vietnamese translation. If anyone has a little free time, feel free to work them into this article too. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 08:53, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Logo for the tree[edit]

Tlogmer made a logo for the Arbre and posted it to Meta. I think this was in the context of articles about amazing subjects that could be used for Wikipedia promotion. But if it was for a formal international celebration, it might be appropriate to mention it here. –SJ + 02:03, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move?[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page not moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 01:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arbre du Ténéré → Tree of Ténéré —

"Known in English as the Tree of Ténéré", according to the article itself. —| Relisted billinghurst sDrewth 12:05, 14 July 2010 (UTC) | Gavia immer (talk) 18:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not a reliable source. To justify a move, you need to produce more evidence. A quick look at Google suggests that both terms are used in English prose. Skinsmoke (talk) 02:49, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose An understandable suggestion, but not necessary. The term in French is not wrong when used in English, and there's no evidence that the English version predominates. The article has been in existence for some time and the issue has not arisen before. I can't see that there is enough possible doubt here to justify a move. Naturenet | Talk 12:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Vachellia vs Acacia?[edit]

I'm not a big Wikipedia editor and I'm terrified to do something wrong so I am proceeding as I understand to be correctly: the genus listed in the article should be updated to reflect taxonomic changes within Acacia, correct? Acacia raddiana/tortilis has been moved to the genus Vachellia; is there a reason not to change it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.89.235.31 (talk) 20:07, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]