Earth • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 24, 2018 • 9 min read

Cambodia Bat faeces turn to ‘black gold’
By
Claire Baker-Munton
• Jan 24, 2018
Top read: We return to one of our most popular pieces of 2018, which looked at the Cambodians reliant on bat faeces to sustain their livelihoods. Nutrient rich guano – colloquially known as “black gold” – provides powerful fertility to farmers' lands and a solid income to those who farm bats, and their faeces