American chestnut restoration efforts are underway, with researchers discovering how compounds in Chinese chestnuts resist ...

More than a century after a disease first spotted at the Bronx Zoo helped wipe out billions of American chestnut trees across ...

The American chestnut tree was a vital part of the Appalachian forest until a fungus nearly wiped it out over a century ago.

At the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo on Oct. 5, 2026, 20 American chestnut trees resistant to a fungus that wiped out 4 billion of these trees in the early 1900's were planted in three ...

Twenty American chestnut trees are now taking root at the Bronx Zoo. The 2-to-3-feet-tall saplings were planted this week in three spots around the zoo, including along the Bronx River. A fungus ...

The tree had been an invaluable resource for those living in this part of the country, but in the early 1900s, billions of ...

The zoo is branching out. The Bronx Zoo introduced a “functionally extinct” tree species at its grounds Monday — more than a ...

American chestnut trees were wiped out more than a century ago. Now, new trees that are fungus-resistant are being planted at ...

The American chestnut is returning to the Bronx Zoo more than 120 years after blight was first documented there. The zoo and ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...

The Bronx Zoo is getting 25 blight-resistant chestnut saplings as part of the effort to bring the tree back from extinction.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...