To mark the International Day for Biological Diversity, here’s an infographic I made to highlight how fig trees are so important to life on Earth. Please feel free to use it/share it. Continue reading
Author: mike shanahan
Religion + fig trees = a boost for biodiversity
A sacred fig tree at a Hindu temple in Bengaluru (Bangalore) – credit Anoop Negi
Two artists with fresh takes on the world’s coolest plants
The trees of life that became agents of death
Public execution of an Indian rebel in 1857
What happened when Christian missionaries met Kenya’s sacred fig trees
Feast your eyes on the forest’s green dreamscape
Awe may be a forest’s least known gift
Biologist Rhett Harrison surrounded by many aerial roots of a single strangler fig (Ficus virens) on Long Island, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Mike Shanahan
Under The Banyan 