In 2009, a village in southern India became a part of a long experiment. The Shola Trust, an NGO, trained the village’s Indigenous communities to harvest stems of a vibrant flowering shrub called lantana (Lantana camara), one of the world’s worst invasive species, and transform them into marketable pieces of furniture. The program had two […]
KATHMANDU They can dig burrows during extreme weather events, run on land, and will eat just about anything. These traits, among others, make mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris) a versatile species capable of adapting to change. “As part of the study, we conducted a count of muggers in the reserve and its buffer zone area, […]