Ny Tanintsika-Wild Silk

Full Circle Trade profiles Ny Tanintsika:

Wild silk is an ancient handicraft, playing an important role in Malagasy culture. Before the advent of other textiles and sources of silk, native silk was used as burial shrouds as well as for clothing, scarves and wraps. However, in recent years unsustainable wild silk cocoon harvest practices and widespread conversion of tapia woodlands to subsistence agriculture have placed the tapia woodlands and their rich biodiversity at grave risk.
Working with Ny Tanintsika, villagers are planting tapia trees in plantations, improving protection of the tapia forests, and are revitalizing the traditional silk industry.

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