When the locusts’ DNA spoke
A swarm of locusts flying over the Cape Verde Islands. This photo was taken by my colleague Maurice Balmat in 1988, during an invasion....
El Niño and the locusts
I arrived in Indonesia for the first time in June 1998. Major riots in the capital had just ended and the flight making the connection...
Lost in the Iguidi erg
In 1989, along with several colleagues from CIRAD, we had to travel in the Tamesna, in the northern saharian Niger, to study habitats and...