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

Mongabay
Aug 13, 2026, 3:00 am119 ptsTrending
CARAMURU/PARAGUASSU INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Looking at the landscape of dry and cleared mountains around her house, Marta Xavier de Oliveira remembered when it was a forest. “When we got sick, that’s where we got our medicine from,” Oliveira, known as Dona Marta, 87, told Mongabay. An Indigenous…

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