Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna

Mongabay
Mar 12, 2021, 2:56 pm559 ptsHotTop
Since Lucely Pio was a little girl, she has been collecting medicinal plants in the Cerrado, Brazil’s tropical savanna. At 5, she walked through the grasslands and forests of the Cerrado with her grandmother, a midwife and healer, who taught her about where to find and how to harvest the thousands of…

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