MS Caledonian Sky.Credit: APT Touring "So the boab's existence in Australia remains a great mystery," says Restrepro over the hum of the engine, as she steers us away. I watch the enigmatic tree ...

Parts of her cultural inheritance are scattered across the Tanami desert in northwestern Australia, where dozens of ancient boab trees are engraved with Aboriginal designs. These tree carvings — ...

The boab trees of the remote Tanami desert are carved with centuries of Indigenous history – and they’re under threat. Australia’s Tanami desert is one of the most isolated and arid places on Earth.

We are in a race against time to document and preserve this invaluable art. The Australian boab or bottle tree (Adansonia gregorii) is an iconic tree naturally found only in a restricted area of ...

After two years of fieldwork, a group of researchers and First Nations Australians have announced the discovery of centuries-old carvings on 12 boab trees in Australia’s Tanami Desert.

Researchers are working with a group of First Nations Australians in a race against time, and some of the roughest terrain on Earth, to document ancient art in the bark of Australia's boab trees.

They would have settled here and introduced the boab tree and words to other Aboriginal groups. So, if you ever visit the Kimberley region of northwest Australia, take some time to look at the ...

Perhaps dating back to before the Continental Shift, the boab is a tree that grows both in Africa and in parts of Australia.