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Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022
Melanesia tropical fruits

Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes

Carolyn Cowan 6 Dec 2021
Medicinal garden

Study confirms anti-inflammatory property of traditional Samoan remedy

Stephanie Melchor 19 Nov 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2021

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2021

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

Sarah Sax 12 Mar 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021
Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020

A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

The wild plants in your pantry—where did they come from?

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2020

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)

Sophie Chao 14 Jul 2020

Panic buying amid pandemic drives scarcity in medicinal herbs in Sri Lanka

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 21 Apr 2020

Madagascar’s president promotes unproven herbal cure for COVID-19

Malavika Vyawahare 20 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
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Margaux Maxwell 23 Jan 2019
Wild orchids still attached to tree branches, for sale in a street market in China. Photo courtesy Amy Hinsley.

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

Stephanie Parker 21 Dec 2018
Naisimari Lentula, a Yiaku herbalist, with a community forest scout outside her house. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

For Kenya’s Yiaku, medicinal herbs are their forest’s blessing and curse

Shadrack Kavilu 30 Nov 2018

More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2018

Reliance on natural healing cultivates respect for nature in Indonesian village

Wahyu Chandra 9 Jan 2018

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

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

Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution

Mike Gaworecki 20 Sep 2016

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