A Portuguese farmer carefully strips cork from a tree. "The tree tells us if we can take or not; you cannot force the cork to come apart," Conceição Santos Silva, a forest engineer, told ABC ...

Standing under the sprawling branches of the largest cork oak tree in the world, it's obvious where The Whistler Tree gets its nickname. Songbirds perch in the canopy of the Portuguese Monumental ...

As a slow-growing tree, the cork oak takes decades to provide shade and produce good-quality cork. But in Coruche, people still go by an old Portuguese saying: “Those who care about their ...

APCOR, the Portuguese Cork Association ... where harvesting of this natural product has been protected by law for centuries. The cork oak tree is never cut down but rather the raw material is ...

The Portuguese forest alone ... In addition, when the bark from a cork oak tree is harvested, it will produce between 250% and 450% more cork than a tree that hasn’t been harvested.

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The cork oak tree is an unusual crop – it can be "harvested ... ecosystem," says Antonio Rios Amorim, chief executive of Portuguese cork producers Corticeira Amorim. "It is one of the world's ...

In Portuguese towns and cities ... Trees can live over 200 years, and one harvest of bark from a single tree can produce enough to cork 4,000 bottles. In the harvesting process, the bark is ...

The Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim is the world's largest producer and distributor of cork. For 150 years, the company has expanded the Portuguese cork industry, but 20 years ago ...

Prized for the lightweight, elastic bark, cork oaks can also store large amounts of carbon during their long lifetimes. Now there are moves to find new uses for this material. Standing under the ...