ECOLOGY OF SHARING
When the Luosuo River, the largest tributary of the Lancang River, takes an almost round-about turn in Mengla County of Yunnan Province, it encircles a piece of land blanketed with trees and meadows. On that land lies the largest tropical botanic garden in China that is home to more than 13,000 species of flora.
In a building hidden among the trees is the office of Kyle Warwick Tomlinson, who currently serves as deputy head of the Center for Integrative Conservation at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG). The Irish native from South Africa has devoted the past years to research on savanna ecosystems and the impact of forest fragmentation in Yunnan and
