Narration from my book: 'Island Folk Stories from the Indian Ocean"
It is a popular tale across the Mascarene islands, where wit and intelligence shine through. A king is distressed at the lowering level of water in his lake and summons different animals to find a solution to it.
By destroying the tropical forests, we risk our own quality of life, gamble with the stability of climate and local weather, threaten the existence of other species, and undermine the valuable services provided by biological diversity. Besides impacting upon rainfall. The Tambalacoque or dodo tree, is a long-lived tree in the family Sapotaceae, endemic to Mauritius. it almost got wiped out to extinction.