“We’ve been coming here for thirty years now”, some hikers tell me, “and we’ve never seen so few orchids.” Once abundant in this small patch of heritage forest, the Butterfly Orchids are today hard to spot among the Strzelecki scrub.
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Heralded as the cradle of Spanish Christendom, for centuries the alpine sanctuary of Covadonga has been a site of miracles for the faithful, a haven for the pilgrim. But today, Covadonga’s spiritual significance becomes universal, as a sacred site for the biosphere during the age of the anthropocene.
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