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

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Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2021-03-15

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 different plants that only existed there.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/traditional-healers-are-preserving-their-knowledge-and-with-it-the-biodiversity-of-brazils-savanna/