How silk caterpillars became a tool for conservation in Madagascar

Mongabay
Jun 10, 2026, 2:23 pm272 ptsTop
When Catherine Craig first went to Gombe in 1972, she was not thinking about silk. She was an undergraduate in a four-seat plane with Jane Goodall, flying over the Tanzanian forest where Goodall’s work on chimpanzees was changing how scientists understood animals. Craig spent six months there, learning to…

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