Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna

Since Lucely Pio was a little girl, she has been collecting medicinal plants in the Cerrado, Brazil’s tropical savanna. At 5, she walked through the grasslands and forests of the Cerrado with her grandmother, a midwife and healer, who taught her about where to find and how to harvest the thousands of different plants that … Continue reading Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna