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Asia’s Fragile Caves Face Growing Development Risks

Source
Yale Environment 360

Publication Date
2014-12-18

Botanist Li-Bing Zhang has spent years collecting ferns in the caves and limestone formations of southwestern China and neighboring Southeast Asia. When I met him recently in a Vietnamese national park, his research vehicle, a silver van, was bursting with fern specimens. Zhang and two colleagues had found them in tropical forests and at the entrances of 10 caves.

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http://e360.yale.edu/feature/asias_fragile_caves_face_growing_development_risks/2833/