Biodiversity and medicine News

RSS
46 stories

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 17 Aug 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

The sponge with the secret recipe: A cancer-fighting chemical

Julia John 8 Jul 2020

Brazilian indigenous chiefs act to halt illegal logging in historical landmark area

Spensy Pimentel 16 Apr 2020

Amazonian leader takes Indigenous pepper to the Brazilian market and teaches how to live a good life

Débora Menezes 13 Apr 2020

Shamans in the city: Brazil clinic offers traditional Amazonian treatments

Débora Menezes 9 Apr 2020
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2019

Conservation groups concerned as WHO recognizes traditional Chinese medicine

Mongabay.com 28 May 2019

Reliance on natural healing cultivates respect for nature in Indonesian village

Wahyu Chandra 9 Jan 2018

Orangutans process plants into medicine, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Dec 2017

Conservation leaders in Africa call for a crackdown on biopiracy

Sophie Mbugua 13 Oct 2017
Alvarado picking a flower called Chiriwayusa in Quichua, which he will use for a medicinal steam bath. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

What would you do if you had “nature’s pharmacy” in your backyard?

Kimberley Brown 17 May 2017

Scary caterpillar fungus could lead to new cancer drug

Alex Hatheway 14 Jan 2013

you're currently offline