Sally Strange<p>Llama poop helps restore ecosystems teetering on disintegration as glaciers retreat. </p><p>'“[Looking through feces] doesn’t sound like fun, but when you see vegetation sprouting out of that, and you recognize that the whole ecosystem goes back to this latrine,” [Geography professor Tim] Beach said. “Because the llamas go to graze there too … you see that these are little islands of fertility, that then lead to the stabilization of this ecosystem.”</p><p>...The work was done in collaboration with Llama 2000 Asociación, an organization of local Peruvian farmers whose land and communities had been negatively impacted by the receding glaciers."</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resilience</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peru</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/llamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llamas</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farming</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GlacierRetreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlacierRetreat</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thedailytexan.com/2023/10/22/llamas-assist-in-revitalizing-low-nutrient-soil-combat-some-climate-change-according-to-ut-researchers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailytexan.com/2023/10/22/l</span><span class="invisible">lamas-assist-in-revitalizing-low-nutrient-soil-combat-some-climate-change-according-to-ut-researchers/</span></a></p>