A Bali farm lights up the night with a one-of-a-kind firefly lab

Mongabay
Dec 23, 2024, 11:07 am148 pts
BALI, Indonesia — “We didn’t have electricity in our village of Taro, near Ubud, until I was 12 years old,” says conservationist Wayan Wardika. To find their way through the rice fields at night, Wardika and his schoolfriends would capture fireflies and put them in jam jars, so they could use them as…

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