Biocultural diversity is declining rapidly across the world, illustrating that human cultures and the natural environment are deeply intertwined. In […]...
Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides) is a perennial grass endemic to India, that was transported around the world more than a century […]...
Plants can communicate, learn, and remember, emit and hear sounds and recognise their kin. Our stereotypical ideas of what a […]...
Piripiri is a cultivated sedge with great importance in Shipibo-Konibo culture, and several other Amazonian indigenous cultures. I researched the […]...
Ecosystem restoration policies and initiatives are mostly based only on Western science and ecological knowledge. But partnership with indigenous people […]...
Did you know that most medicinal and aromatic plants in our everyday food and cosmetic products are wild-harvested Local communities […]...
One million species are threatened with extinction, and transformative change is needed to restore and protect nature globally. Those were […]...
For many the idea of shamanism brings visions of Latin America, where seekers join plant ceremonies and sweat lodges, or of the mystics of Asia […]...
The Llamado de la Montaña is the annual gathering for sustainable communities in South America. This ‘ Call of the […]...