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I am the author of 'Ladders To Heaven: How fig trees shaped our history, fed our imaginations and can enrich our future' (Unbound, 2016). My book was published in the US and Canada as 'Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees' (Chelsea Green, 2016).
Read a summary and advance praise from: Annie Proulx, Deborah Blum, Michael Pollan, Sy Montgomery, Simran Sethi, David George Haskell and others.

Conservation narratives about protected areas and local people are not telling the whole story
Explainer: COP15, the biggest biodiversity conference in a decade
Meat still missing from national climate change commitments
Will 30×30 reboot conservation or entrench old problems?
New recipe needed to make food systems better for people and planet
From a fig tree of antiquity to hundreds of interconnected artworks created in a pandemic
A prescription for our sick planet
Scientists warn of rising denial of extinction and biodiversity loss

10 things you need to know about banyan trees
King Bruno: A chimpanzee's tale of tragedy and hope
The trees of life that became agents of death
True or false? Figs contain dead wasps
What happened when Christian missionaries met Kenya's sacred fig trees
The majesty and mystery of India’s sacred banyan trees
Mali's giant trees and fortune-telling foxes
Fresh evidence of the power of fig trees to sustain wildlife and restore lost forests
The near empty forest that proves conservation is failing
Amazing photo of Buddha's head engulfed by strangler fig roots

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