Photos show tourists climbing on the exposed roots of the endangered Tree of Life in Washington’s Olympic National Park. Screen grab from Instagram An iconic, endangered tree in a Washington’s ...

Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an ...

Many who have visited the tree over the years have posted photos on social media alongside musings about the tree as a sign of hope, a symbol of nature’s resiliency and an inspiration to stand ...

Mathew Nichols Photography Courtesy A “tree of life WA” search on Instagram reveals hundreds of photos. Some, unfortunately, show people climbing and hanging on the tree’s roots. One poster ...

“What da flip? People climbing the tree of life today at [the] Animal Kingdom,” a TikToker captioned a video of the incident Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

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Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first ...