Fat choy: the lucky sounding Chinese New Year food whose harvesting has turned fragile landscapes in China into desert

Considered lucky because of its name in Cantonese, fat choy, black moss is a food eaten at Chinese New Year. However, overharvesting of it has led to desertification where it grows in China.

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