Mongabay: Next time you're in the supermarket looking to buy a nice bottle of wine: think cork. Although it's not widely known, the cork industry is helping to sustain one of the world's most biodiverse forests, including a number of endangered species such as the Iberian lynx and the Barbary deer. Spreading across 6.6 million acres in southern Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy) and northern Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) oak cork trees Quercus suber are actually preserved and ......
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How that cork in your wine bottle helps forests and biodiversity, an interview with Patrick Spencer
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 1st, 2010
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