Quiet revolutions

• Autores: Bob Holmes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3045, 2015, págs. 31-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Holmes talks about the British botanist Lilian Gibbs who walked across North Borneo and climbed Mount Kinabalu. What Gibbs saw was a seemingly curated tropical forest, regularly set alight by local tribes and with space carefully cleared around selected wild fruit trees, to give them room to flourish. The forest, appeared to be partitioned and managed to get the most rattan canes, fibre for basketry medicinal plants and other products.