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.