Cook Islanders harness killer starfish to revive ancient farming technique | The Pacific

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In the Cook Islands beautiful blue lagoon lurks an unassuming killer – the Crown of Thorns Starfish. The coral-eating creature has devastated its reef, but one group is fighting back, turning the prickly plague into compost in the hopes of reviving an ancient taro planting technique.

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