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Traditional healers in Philippines keep their ‘forest pharmacy’ standing
09 Feb 2024 17:56:39 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/traditional-healers-in-philippines-keep-their-forest-pharmacy-standing/
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Ghana’s medicinal plants, the ‘first aid’ for communities, are under threat
02 Feb 2024 16:24:18 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/ghanas-medicinal-plants-the-first-aid-for-communities-are-under-threat/
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Bangladeshi farmers eye moringa as a climate and economic solution
22 Jan 2024 13:41:51 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/bangladeshi-farmers-eye-moringa-as-a-climate-and-economic-solution/
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‘Immense body of knowledge’ at stake in Cambodia’s Prey Lang as deforestation soars
13 Dec 2023 03:34:15 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/immense-body-of-knowledge-at-stake-in-cambodias-prey-lang-as-deforestation-soars/
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Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice
05 Dec 2023 16:23:51 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/traditional-healers-push-for-recognition-and-licensing-of-age-old-himalayan-practice/
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Bangladesh ‘Village of Herbs’ profits from planting rather than cutting trees
21 Jul 2023 12:19:20 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/bangladesh-village-of-herbs-profits-from-planting-rather-than-cutting-trees/
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‘A psychedelic renaissance’: How hallucinogens can aid conservation
20 Jun 2023 23:50:36 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/a-psychedelic-renaissance-how-hallucinogens-can-aid-conservation/
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Deforestation in Borneo threatens three endangered, endemic plant species
21 Apr 2023 04:00:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/deforestation-in-borneo-threatens-three-endangered-endemic-plant-species/
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‘War with weeds’ lacks ecological understanding and empathy (commentary)
01 Feb 2023 22:19:26 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/war-with-weeds-lacks-ecological-understanding-and-empathy-commentary/
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Documenting Nepal’s plant-based medical tradition: Q&A with Ram Prasad Chaudhary
28 Sep 2022 06:34:21 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/documenting-nepals-plant-based-medical-tradition-qa-with-ram-prasad-chaudhary/
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Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times
22 Aug 2022 01:46:46 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/encircled-by-plantations-a-sumatran-indigenous-community-abides-changing-times/
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Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico
08 Jun 2022 17:42:17 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/indigenous-agroforestry-dying-of-thirst-amid-a-sea-of-avocados-in-mexico/
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Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern
02 Jun 2022 13:31:51 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/legal-and-illegal-cannabis-a-cause-for-growing-environmental-concern/
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Saving medicinal plants a village cause in Indonesia
26 May 2022 16:21:52 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/saving-medicinal-plants-a-village-cause-in-indonesia/
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Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being
31 Jan 2022 21:27:01 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/indigenous-knowledge-is-a-connective-tissue-between-nature-and-human-well-being-says-ethnobotanist-mark-plotkin/
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Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters
13 Jan 2022 13:44:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/indonesian-research-center-for-medicinal-plants-displaces-incense-harvesters/
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Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet
07 Jan 2022 15:41:01 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/not-your-ordinary-houseplant-worlds-tallest-begonia-found-in-tibet/
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Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes
06 Dec 2021 15:50:51 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/between-land-and-sea-agrobiodiversity-holds-key-to-health-for-melanesian-tribes/
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Study confirms anti-inflammatory property of traditional Samoan remedy
19 Nov 2021 17:39:23 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/study-confirms-anti-inflammatory-property-of-traditional-samoan-remedy/
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For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham
11 Oct 2021 19:12:46 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/for-some-indigenous-covid-presents-possibility-of-cultural-extinction-says-myrna-cunningham/
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Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants
20 Sep 2021 16:25:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/extinction-of-indigenous-languages-leads-to-loss-of-exclusive-knowledge-about-medicinal-plants/
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Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants
18 Aug 2021 15:22:02 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/climate-change-threatens-to-squeeze-out-indonesias-medicinal-plants/
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Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna
12 Mar 2021 19:56:29 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/traditional-healers-are-preserving-their-knowledge-and-with-it-the-biodiversity-of-brazils-savanna/
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An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)
01 Mar 2021 09:35:21 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/an-economic-case-for-competing-in-the-xprize-rainforest-contest-commentary/
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Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture
18 Jan 2021 06:40:20 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/protesters-hold-back-military-takeover-of-balkans-largest-mountain-pasture/
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Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis
21 Oct 2020 09:00:22 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/colombia-ethnobotany-and-americas-decline-an-interview-with-wade-davis/
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A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment
02 Oct 2020 07:11:59 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/a-philippine-tribes-plant-based-medical-tradition-gets-its-moment/
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World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report
01 Oct 2020 15:10:12 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/worlds-plants-and-fungi-a-frontier-of-discovery-if-we-can-protect-them-report/
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Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic
29 Jul 2020 17:49:38 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/indigenous-ashaninka-launch-fundraiser-to-help-amazon-neighbors-amid-pandemic/
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The wild plants in your pantry—where did they come from?
20 Jul 2020 11:59:39 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/the-wild-plants-in-your-pantry-where-did-they-come-from/
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‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)
14 Jul 2020 07:05:05 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/in-the-plantations-there-is-hunger-and-loneliness-the-cultural-dimensions-of-food-insecurity-in-papua-commentary/
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Panic buying amid pandemic drives scarcity in medicinal herbs in Sri Lanka
21 Apr 2020 06:32:34 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/panic-buying-amid-pandemic-drives-scarcity-in-medicinal-herbs-in-sri-lanka/
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Madagascar’s president promotes unproven herbal cure for COVID-19
20 Apr 2020 14:12:52 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/madagascars-president-promotes-unproven-herbal-cure-for-covid-19/
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The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)
07 Oct 2019 07:09:43 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/the-unrecognized-cost-of-indonesias-fires-commentary/
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Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people
04 Jun 2019 12:32:10 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/study-reveals-a-fragile-web-of-knowledge-linking-plants-to-people/
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In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers
03 Jun 2019 09:31:33 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/in-ethiopias-addis-ababa-gullele-botanical-garden-captivates-city-dwellers/
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In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation
19 Feb 2019 09:00:17 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/making-amends-in-the-name-of-conservation/
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Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf
23 Jan 2019 12:58:48 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/indigenous-communities-in-post-farc-colombia-struggle-to-destigmatize-sacred-leaf/
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Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade
21 Dec 2018 11:52:57 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/social-media-e-commerce-sites-facilitate-illegal-orchid-trade/
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For Kenya’s Yiaku, medicinal herbs are their forest’s blessing and curse
30 Nov 2018 10:38:20 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/for-kenyas-yiaku-medicinal-herbs-are-their-forests-blessing-and-curse/
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More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks
15 Nov 2018 13:22:14 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/more-than-one-third-of-critically-endangered-plants-cannot-be-conserved-in-seed-banks/
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Reliance on natural healing cultivates respect for nature in Indonesian village
09 Jan 2018 09:51:39 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/reliance-on-natural-healing-cultivates-respect-for-nature-in-indonesian-village/
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Audio: Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined
12 Dec 2017 15:24:14 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/audio-amazon-tribes-traditional-medicine-encyclopedia-gets-an-update-and-conservation-effectiveness-in-madagascar-examined/
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Orangutans process plants into medicine, study finds
04 Dec 2017 17:42:28 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/orangutans-process-plants-into-medicine-study-finds/
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Conservation leaders in Africa call for a crackdown on biopiracy
13 Oct 2017 13:53:54 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/conservation-leaders-in-africa-call-for-a-crackdown-on-biopiracy/
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What would you do if you had “nature’s pharmacy” in your backyard?
17 May 2017 06:26:50 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/05/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-natures-pharmacy-in-your-backyard/
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Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution
20 Sep 2016 21:25:52 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/09/scientists-say-amazon-biodiversity-could-help-fuel-fourth-industrial-revolution/
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Local communities rush to save Kenya’s only lowland rainforest
29 Mar 2016 17:51:08 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/local-communities-rush-to-save-kenyas-only-lowland-rainforest/
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The miraculous Moringa tree: potential solution for world malnutrition
18 Nov 2015 22:51:34 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/the-miraculous-moringa-tree-potential-solution-for-world-malnutrition/
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Economic models for forests often neglect value of biodiversity
06 Feb 2015 17:07:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2015/02/economic-models-for-forests-often-neglect-value-of-biodiversity/
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What we can learn from uncontacted rainforest tribes
26 Nov 2014 23:06:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/what-we-can-learn-from-uncontacted-rainforest-tribes/
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Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom
11 Feb 2014 20:33:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2014/02/helping-the-amazons-jaguar-people-protect-their-culture-and-traditional-wisdom/
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Livelihoods depend on the environment in the Western Ghats
27 Sep 2012 13:07:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/livelihoods-depend-on-the-environment-in-the-western-ghats/
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Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain
14 Mar 2012 22:38:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/amazon-plant-yields-miracle-cure-for-dental-pain/
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Zoopharmacognosy: how self-healing animals could save humans
27 Nov 2011 23:12:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/zoopharmacognosy-how-self-healing-animals-could-save-humans/
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Chemotherapy tree facing extinction
10 Nov 2011 18:08:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/chemotherapy-tree-facing-extinction/
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Shamans and indigenous spiritual leaders unite in Malibu
09 Nov 2011 23:42:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/shamans-and-indigenous-spiritual-leaders-unite-in-malibu/
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Monarch butterflies medicate their sick kids
12 Oct 2010 19:31:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/monarch-butterflies-medicate-their-sick-kids/
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Losing nature’s medicine cabinet
04 Oct 2010 21:38:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/losing-natures-medicine-cabinet/
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Hutan Hujan Australia Hasilkan Kemungkinan Pembunuh Kanker
21 Jun 2010 04:16:00 +0000
https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/hutan-hujan-australia-hasilkan-kemungkinan-pembunuh-kanker/
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