Neolithic scholars issue stark warning on Malta’s environmental future
Malta’s vegetation may have changed more in past decade than in the previous 9,000 years, scholars say in stark warning on Malta’s environmental threat after documenting the islanders’ ‘resourcefulness’ in survival in a small arid island
16 December 2020, 7:30am
by James Debono
The goal of the FRAGSUS Project was to understand the economic and technological means that sustained an ancient culture in such a small island context
“It is ironic that the Maltese vegetation, which for 9,000 years has survived almost unchanged despite everything that the environment, people and their animals could do to it, has perhaps changed more during the lifetime of the FRAGSUS Project (carried over the past decade) which was set up to study the resilience of this island environment”.