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How the first published Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge

Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HãHãHãi, the first published Indigenous ethnobotanist, worked with elders in Brazil's Caramuru/Paraguassu territory to document 175 medicinal plants, many validated by science. Their knowledge, threatened by land conflicts, is now preserved in a herbarium and a forthcoming book.

Source: How the first published Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge — Mongabay Conservation

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