Lela Nargi is a veteran journalist who writes about science, food and food policy, and sustainability for a wide variety of outlets, including Civil Eats, NPR’s The Salt, Sierra, Mental Floss, and Science News for Students. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Cranes, sandpipers, ducks, geese and many other waterbirds have lost essential rest stops along their seasonal migration routes. Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in filling the gaps.
Cultivating a limited number of crops reduced the genetic diversity of plants, endangering harvests. Seed collectors hope to fix it by finding the plants’ wild cousins.
