(Posted 01st September 2025)
| Spoorthy Raman, Mongabay (U.S), August 29, 2025 |
| In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony, an economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood, the Indigenous Baka people accompanied him. As they sat around campfires and trekked through the rainforests, Deblauwe tapped into their knowledge of flora and fauna, especially about ebony trees and their dispersal. They all told him that one animal was responsible for the ebony tree’s future survival: the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). |
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