Brazil Nut Loss Looms: Harvest may be too heavy to last
By Susan Milius
What are now rich forest areas for harvesting Brazil nuts might wane into an impoverished old age unless harvesters change their ways, warns a large international group of scientists.
Brazil nuts alone among internationally traded seed crops come entirely from wild collections in the forest, rather than from farms. Conservationists have praised nut collection as a model for generating income from a tropical forest without destroying it.