Himalayan Viagra Fuels Caterpillar Fungus Gold Rush

Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 16:30 in Earth & Climate

Overwhelmed by speculators trying to cash-in on a prized medicinal fungus known as Himalayan Viagra, two isolated Tibetan communities have managed to do at the local level what world leaders often fail to do on a global scale -- implement a successful system for the sustainable harvest of a precious natural resource, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

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