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If you are not familiar with #anthropogenicBiodiversity read this article by Tess McClure in the Guardian on abandonment. <https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria>
We have the same problem in #Nepal: labour migration leads to abandonment of hill villages, but invasive species such as Lantana take over the terraces.

A different aspect of this same question drives my research around sacred sites: how do #social-ecological processes create and maintain ritually protected #biodiversity hotspots?

#anthropology
#ecology

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