Ancient Livestock Dung Heaps Are Now African Wildlife Hotspots
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 14:06
in Biology & Nature
Often viewed as wild, naturally pristine and endangered by human encroachment, some of the African savannah's most fertile and biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of dung deposited there over thousands of years by the livestock of wandering herders, suggests new research in the journal Nature.