Vanilla farmer Louis Leichnig poses on his farm at Saint-Philippe, on the French Indian Ocean Island of Reunion on April 26, 2024. Modern vanilla cultivation began on Reunion Island, where the process of fertilising the plant by hand was discovered, making it fertile, however production is plummeting and the survival of the plant on the island is in danger, due to climate change. (Photo by Richard BOUHET / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD BOUHET/AFP via Getty Images)