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Rafael Tornini, director of the Vatican Gardens, Sergio Guidi, president of an Italian tree conservation association, and Vincenzo Soldano, who works in the Vatican Gardens, are pictured after the planting of one of eight donated saplings in the Vatican Gardens April 18, 2018. The saplings were from tree species that are threatened or endangered with extinction. (CNS/Courtesy of Gabriele Piazzoli, Patriarchi della Natura)