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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

Local communities rush to save Kenya’s only lowland rainforest

Isaiah Esipisu 29 Mar 2016

The miraculous Moringa tree: potential solution for world malnutrition

Taryn Farber 18 Nov 2015

Economic models for forests often neglect value of biodiversity

Joanna Parkman 6 Feb 2015

What we can learn from uncontacted rainforest tribes

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Nov 2014

Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2014

Livelihoods depend on the environment in the Western Ghats

Viraj Singh 27 Sep 2012

Amazon plant yields miracle cure for dental pain

Jeremy Hance 14 Mar 2012

Zoopharmacognosy: how self-healing animals could save humans

Allison Hegan 27 Nov 2011

Chemotherapy tree facing extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2011

Shamans and indigenous spiritual leaders unite in Malibu

Bhalin Singh 9 Nov 2011

Monarch butterflies medicate their sick kids

Jeremy Hance 12 Oct 2010

Losing nature’s medicine cabinet

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2010

Hutan Hujan Australia Hasilkan Kemungkinan Pembunuh Kanker

Jeremy Hance, Oleh Jeremy Hance 21 Jun 2010

Ketika alam selamatkan nyawa Anda

Tulisan Oleh Carolyn Langlie-lesnik 21 Jun 2010

Australian rainforest plant yields possible cancer killer

Jeremy Hance 14 Jun 2010

When nature saves your life

Carolyn Langlie-lesnik 14 Jun 2010

Taking back the rainforest: Indians in Colombia govern 100,000 square miles of territory

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2010

Cochabamba Climate Conference: the Coca Contradiction

Nikolas Kozloff 11 Apr 2010

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2009

Research into drugs derived from natural products declining

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2009

Anti-HIV and anti-cancer drugs derived from Borneo rainforest progressing to final development stages

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2009

Traditional practices contribute to conservation of medicinal plants

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2009

Tropical forest tree is source of new mosquito repellent as effective as DEET

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

IP laws not helping indigenous people protect traditional knowledge (repost)

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2008

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