The Mongabay news source checks out. The story about the salamanders checks out.But I'd like to know about the nuns and their cough syrup made with salamanders. Going to have to follow up on this one!#Nature #Ecology #Science
Mongabay (@mongabay@mastodon.green)Dominican nuns at a monastery in Mexico have become unlikely conservation heroes, maintaining the world’s largest captive population of critically endangered achoque salamanders, which number fewer than 150 in the wild. The nuns’ 150-year tradition of breeding salamanders for the production of traditional cough syrup evolved into a critical conservation program after wild populations crashed in the 1980s due to lake pollution and overfishing. by Liz Kimbrough https://news.mongabay.com/202…
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