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“It made us ask the question, ‘How do you decolonize an ethnobotanical garden?’”

From Seattle Times • May 9, 2023

Fewer than 5% of the medicinal plants used by the Ticuna people, whose ethnobotanical knowledge is one of the best-studied in the Amazon, have been screened for their biological activities, Cámara Leret says.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 5, 2022

She was also recognized for turning to native and ethnobotanical flora to give landscapes and their inhabitants a sense of place.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2021

“In making his sensational claim,” Mr. Davis writes, “Thor Heyerdahl ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong.”

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013

Some of the foundation's funding comes through Cox's ethnobotanical success with medicinally, or in this case cosmetically, valuable plants.

From Time Magazine Archive