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  THE AGAVE PLANT: GIFT FROM THE GODS AND TEQUILA SPIRIT THE OLD AZTECS AND THEIR LEGENDS OF THE AGAVE      The old civilisations of South and Central America had so many mysterious way to express the secrets of nature or to hide them in forever riddle for the modern world. We can witness that all what the pharmacy nowadays is sharing with us has actually origin in the ancient cultures and their discoveries, to heal or to destroy. Everything is somehow connected and has some logic that we all try to understand but still with no real success.      I have never been really interested in the history of alcoholic beveriges or to taste them but then I met Miguel, a friend from Mexico, who was so proud of Mexican famous liquor, Tequila. For me, as an explorer, it was nothing really inviting about that drink that I didn’t try yet but for Miguel, the 38-year-old man from Acapulco, Tequila was the part of Mexican identity, no matter if you are into drinkin...

  THE CORAL REEFS: THE UNIQUE SHELTERS OF MARINE BIOLOGY WHY THE REEFS ARE SO VALUABLE FOR THE NATURE?      I saw them, for the first time, in Jordan….the beautiful and mesmerising Red Sea and the accordion of thousand of corals. Honestly, I have never thought that coral reef could be so magical but, yes, it is. The humans are not aware of that extraordinary and authentic portray of marine ecosystem but now and then, the endangerment of the coral reefs is bringing up the issue of conservation and future protection. The coral reefs are more than valuable part of the nature and one of a kind proof that biodiversity has its own secret solutions.      The coral reefs themselves are the labyrinth of marine habitat. They are such diverse and specific network of many species and according to the science, they are home to more than 25% of the marine life but they are also crucial to 330 million people in the world. Those coral structures are actually the ...