In Zambia, a Craze for a Traditional Treat Is Endangering Wild Orchids

WHEN RELATIVES VISITED BRIGHTON KAOMA’S childhood home in the Copperbelt Province of central Zambia, they’d come bearing gifts: oblong brown chikanda, freshly dug from the earth of the family’s ancestral village.

Read more at Atlas Obscura. Photo: Petra Keßler/Unsplash.


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