Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

While millions of dollars is a small drop in the bucket for an industry responsible for $14.9 billion in economic activity in 2022, an infestation could have major impacts on individual wineries.