In this episode, we head to the Amazon with our Horticulture & Big Ideas field reporter, Maki, who is live from Iquitos, Peru. We dive into the world of Amazon plant medicine and the pivotal role it has played in the history of BioPharma. Maki shares a revolutionary new model developed in collaboration with the Shultes Center, aimed at preserving indigenous plant knowledge and advancing sustainable agroforestry practices. Learn how traditional knowledge, combined with modern science, is creating bioethical solutions to heal both humanity and the planet. If you’re passionate about ethnobotany, the Amazon’s biodiversity, or sustainable innovation, this episode is for you.
Theme Music: by Pezzner
–Richard Evans Schultes Center for Amazonian Ethnobotanical Research
The Richard Evans Schultes Center for Amazonian Ethnobotanical Research is a non-profit dedicated to preserving and advancing ethnobotany in one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions. We add modern science to traditional knowledge, emphasizing a bioethical approach and using world-wide networking to help heal the planet and humanity.
-If you are moved to support the preservation of the indigenous knowledge of Amazon Plant Libraries, please donate to the Shultes Center 501c3 here: schultes • Upsurgent
To protect the basis of this knowledge involves protecting the Amazonian ecosystem, including its people. They aim to do this through development of appropriate agroforestry production practices, integrating rural people with their environment in innovative and truly sustainable ways. Combining ethnobotany with modern scientific research tools can help both the people of this vast region and of the planet to live better lives, while protecting and enhancing the life of the supporting Amazonian biosphere.
