Elephant bush would also make an interesting addition ... leaves and is well suited to covering slopes or terraces. Cork bark is a variety with a rough stem making it especially prized for bonsai.

For more than 150 years, Corticeira Amorim SA has thrived by buying slabs of bark stripped from cork trees in Portugal and transforming them into stoppers. The company annually produces billions ...

Given the facts that elephant damage ... stripping them of their bark. Dr Wigley, who did indeed start from the obvious assumption, set off to find out how much worse bush fires would make the ...