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Sustainable Practices Can Save Mexico’s Blue Agave, Tequila and Bats
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Sustainable Practices Can Save Mexico’s Blue Agave, Tequila and Bats

Many associate tequila with lime wedges, salt, and parties. But the popular drink also has a negative impact on biodiversity, both on the blue agave from which it is made and, perhaps more unexpectedly, on bats. Both are threatened by one-sided cultivation. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, together with colleagues in Mexico and the...