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Indigenous Knowledge  ·  Madagascar  ·  Medicinal Plants
Exploring Sakalava culture and medicinal plants on the island of Madagascar

In spring 2025, I travelled to Madagascar to document the medicinal plant knowledge of the Sakalava ...

December 19, 2025
Sage plant in a garden
Aromatherapy  ·  Medicinal Plants
Increase your focus and memory with 3 essential oils

Learn about historical and current day uses of plants for focus and memory and the growing body of s...

November 30, 2023
Ethnobotany  ·  Nature Conservation
How to restore our relationship with bracken with 8 modern day uses

The bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) is such a common plant, that most of us hardly notice its pre...

November 8, 2023
The Amazon rainforest
Amazon rainforest  ·  Biocultural Diversity
Biocultural diversity loss in the Peruvian Amazon

Biocultural diversity is declining rapidly across the world, illustrating that human cultures and th...

May 22, 2023
Vetiver grass
Aromatherapy  ·  Ethnobotany
An ethnobotanical profile of Vetiver grass

Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides) is a perennial grass endemic to India, that was transported around...

May 4, 2023
A finger points at a Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica)
Plant Consciousness  ·  Plant intelligence  ·  Plant science
Plant intelligence, a new paradigm in science

Plants can communicate, learn, and remember, emit and hear sounds and recognise their kin. Our stere...

February 24, 2023
Marcos in his community
Indigenous Knowledge  ·  Medicinal Plants  ·  Plant Consciousness
The significance of the medicinal plant piripiri in Shipibo-Konibo culture

Piripiri is a cultivated medicinal plant, a sedge, with great importance in Shipibo-Konibo culture, ...

February 24, 2023
Ecosystem Restoration  ·  Indigenous Knowledge
Why we need traditional knowledge in ecosystem restoration

Ecosystem restoration policies and initiatives are mostly based only on Western science and ecologic...

January 24, 2023
Collecting Jiaogulan Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Viet Nam. Photo credit: Tung Pham/TRAFFIC
Biocultural Diversity  ·  Medicinal Plants
The sustainability of wild-harvested medicinal plants is under threat

Did you know that most medicinal and aromatic plants in our everyday food and cosmetic products are ...

May 22, 2022
Education
The New Earth School: an educational community platform for our time

Regeneration and education have been my main driving passions in life, so when I was asked in the su...

January 14, 2021
Ecosystem Restoration  ·  Ecovillages
Ecovillages as hubs for social and ecological regeneration

Ecovillages worldwide are playing a crucial role in ecosystem restoration. Many ecovillages aim to d...

June 10, 2020
Indigenous Knowledge  ·  Nature Conservation
The role of indigenous communities in biodiversity conservation

One million species are threatened with extinction, and transformative change is needed to restore a...

January 25, 2020

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