The ancestral species of many fruits and nuts we enjoy in the West are threatened with extinction in Central Asia. A recent report by Fauna & Flora International has found nearly 90 percent of the region’s fruit and nut forests have been lost in the past 50 years. The conservation group’s Global Trees Campaign coordinator, Georgina Magin, talks with host Jeff Young about what’s at stake if the ancestral roots of the fruits we enjoy are lost forever.
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