An 1,500-year-old tradition on the brink:
🐚 On #Mexico’s coast, #Mixtec artisans "milk" a rare snail (Plicopurpura colummelaris), without harm, to extract #purple dye ink.
Now #ClimateChange, poaching, and tourism threaten snails and centuries of #Indigenous knowledge:
📰 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/16/mexico-snail-milkers-mixtec-dye-purpura-aoe
Jens Notroff
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