A small preserve leads a big effort to save native plants in the Bahamas

Mongabay
Dec 30, 2025, 7:37 pm322 ptsTrendingTop
ELEUTHERA, Bahamas — Tucked away beside the main road that runs along Eleuthera, a narrow island in the Bahamas, the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve holds 12 hectares (30 acres) of dense subtropical dry forest. Black witch moths (Ascalapha odorata), as large as bats, zigzag between the branches as fluorescent…

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