FORKS, Wash. – The "Tree of Life" in Olympic National Park has become a symbol of resilience over the years, but recent photos show that this bastion of beating the odds may be coming to its end.

Demolition has begun on “It’s Tough to Be a Bug,” the original Tree of Life show at Disney’s Animal Kingdom that permanently closed on Sunday, March 16. “It’s Though to Be a Bug ...

But over the last several months, those uplifting photo captions have been slowly replaced with eulogies for the tree and reflections on its life.“I visited the Tree of Life today for the first ...

“What da flip? People climbing the tree of life today at [the] Animal Kingdom,” a TikToker captioned a video of the incident Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an ...