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This is the first time aspects of the ethnobotany of East Timor have been reported. The medicinal plant traditions of two distinct East Timorese cultures, the Laklei and Idate, were studied and ...

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Since very early on in human history, people have relied on medicinal plants to cure them of their various ills. Ethnobotany is the study of plant lore and agricultural customs of a people and is ...

In 2023, I was invited to Obafemi Awolowo University, my alma mater, for the 33rd Annual General Meeting and 17th Scientific Conference of the Nigerian Society of Pharmacognosy. Traditional healers ...

IN the thirtieth annual report of the Bureau” of American Ethnology, Mr. M. C. Stevenson publishes an elaborate article on the ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. This tribe had discovered the medicinal ...

Arnold Clifford (Diné) is a Native scholar, field botanist, ethnobotanist, and geologist. From Beclahbito, New Mexico and the Carrizo Mountain Range, Clifford integrates his cultural teachings with ...

SINGAPORE - Visitors to the Singapore Botanic Gardens can now check out a new ethnobotany garden, the first of its kind in Singapore which explores how plants are used by indigenous people in ...

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and ...