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Can fig trees regrow lost rainforests?

November 19, 2019April 4, 2020 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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Guns, gangs and gold: A brewing social and environmental crisis in Venezuela

August 28, 2018July 2, 2019 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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Feast your eyes on the forest’s green dreamscape

March 21, 2018April 13, 2018 / mike shanahan / 2 Comments

Strangler fig (Ficus kerkhovenii). Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak

Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak

Colugo (flying lemur) in Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak

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See what it’s like when a strangler fig explodes with life

September 1, 2017November 16, 2017 / mike shanahan / 2 Comments

Rhinoceros hornbills eating ripe figs

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Fresh evidence of the power of fig trees to sustain wildlife and restore lost forests

May 3, 2017July 20, 2018 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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Can living fig-tree bridges save lives in a changing climate?

December 5, 2016September 3, 2019 / mike shanahan / 4 Comments

By AditiVerma2193 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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‘I didn’t choose figs — They seduced me’

October 20, 2016November 16, 2017 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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Chapter-by-chapter preview of my book Ladders to Heaven

October 7, 2015November 16, 2017 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

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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).
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