PODCAST #70 | The latest examples of the ancient Ethiopian forests keep their lives sheltered from the walls of hundreds of hermites
- In the last century Ethiopia has lost most of the old forests under the pressure of agriculture, grazing and famine caused by neo-colonial industrial cultivation in the country. However, the last pieces of forest filled with biodiversity, as fossils, have remained for centuries around the church and the hermitage, saved by their religion as sacred. Some naturalist scientists try to preserve, disseminate and relate these gems.
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