Eating Beetles on a Shrinking Island

Majuli Island, which is part of the Indian state of Assam, is the largest river island in the world, and is home to five ethnicities, more than a hundred species of plants, and plenty of endangered fauna, all of whom find themselves sharing an increasingly cramped home. The island has shrunk to less than half of its original size during the last century, from roughly 500 square miles to about 150 square miles. In India, it is widely referred to as the shrinking island of the northeast.

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