The article is not about growing a genuinely thousand year old tree.

The article is about human deforestation meaning there is an age gap of trees so there is no generation turning a thousand for the first time — no trees that will become ancient before the current ancients die. They are trying techniques to make younger trees have characteristics of older trees in order to keep the ecological presence.

Why those 3 countries in particular? Wouldn’t this work anywhere (provided it’s not in a war zone or a volcano zone etc)?

Gotta pick the right environment+tree combination.

You could always settle in the Mojave, plant a grove of bristlecone pines instead.

I don't know if more boreal climates support longevity, I think it has to be some combination of temperate + dry + safe from natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes

You are... unlikely to grow an olive tree successfully in Toronto.

Even for other kinds of long-lived trees, places without big ice storms, hurricanes, etc. that would prematurely end the tree are probably safer bets.

Wait a few decades and olive trees should grow fine in Toronto. Climate change ftw

Southern Arizona works too. The Sonoran is a very wet dessert.

>The Sonoran is a very wet dessert

a wet dessert sounds similar to tira-misspell?

Dang it. A Sonoran wet dessert is a raspado.