Just Published: François Duchenne: "An Average Mauritian Cannot Identify Three Endemic Species"

A great tree is dying. It belongs to an endemic species and can live for 1,000 years. However, the deer vine, or hiptage benghalensis, is choking it, blocking a bit more of the vital sunlight each day. Through the pen of François Duchenne, the great tree becomes a character— the main consciousness, an unwavering eye, a non-compromising observer of the story of an island. Ours.

Grand Makak, an ecological tale by François Duchenne, has just been published.