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#mexicos — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. An 1,500 y/o tradition on the brink: 🐚 On #Mexico’s coast, #Mixtec artisans "milk" a rare snail (Plicopurpura colummelaris), w/o harm, to extract #purple dye ink. Now #ClimateChange, poaching, & tourism threaten snails & centuries of #Indigenous knowledge: 📰 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

    ‘We sometimes milked 3,000 sna...