Enjoying my low carbon footprint form of travel toward #ecobhvr2025, I am re-reading some accounts of environmental/societal destruction caused by the extraction of rare natural products that dazzle most of us... My selection of illustrated stories: - 1. mammoth ivory: www.rferl.org/a/the-mammot...

- 2. amber: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/illegal-amber-mining-ukraine