If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
photo credit: angela7dreams
Rainforest Discovery Centre, Sandakan,  Malaysia (Borneo)
Popularity: 44% [?]
Sphere: Related Content

Popularity: 44% [?]

Posted in Rain Forest Plants, Tropical Rain Forest No Comments »

UK oil giant BP and UK biofuels producer D1 Oils are forming a 50/50 joint venture, to be called D1-BP Fuel Crops Limited, to accelerate the planting of jatropha curcas in order to make more sustainable biodiesel feedstock available on a larger scale.
Jatropha curcas is a drought-resistant, inedible oilseed-bearing tree that does not compete with [...]

Popularity: 52% [?]

Posted in Rain Forest Plants, Rainforest Products No Comments »

Anti-oxidents from the Rainforest
Needless to say, the Amazonian Rainforest is replete with herbs offering a wide variety of health benefits.  But beyond specific health benefits, like the ability of stevia to regulate blood pressure or sangre de drago to accelerate wound healing or chanca piedra to break kidney stones into a myriad of small stones, [...]

Popularity: 29% [?]

Posted in Amazon Rain Forest, Medicinal Herbs, Rain Forest Plants, Rainforest Products No Comments »

How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?.

The short answer — no one really knows
Rhettt A. Butler, mongabay.com
May 14, 2005
 

Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long been aware that rainforest dwellers have an astounding knowledge of medicinal plants. Kaiapo shaman in the Amazon.

For thousands of years, indigenous [...]

Popularity: 23% [?]

Posted in Indigenous People, Medicinal Herbs, Rain Forest Plants No Comments »