Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon Face Massive Cultural and Ecological Loss Due to Climate Change
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Nature: For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have built up knowledge about useful plants in the Amazon region. Many of those plants are in danger of being lost…
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon face massive cultural and ecological loss due to climate change
The Amazon region, Earth's most important ecosystem, is home to more than 400 Indigenous groups that use thousands of rainforest plant species. They pass on their knowledge of the flora primarily through oral tradition, usually from parents or other family members to their children. This creates a "living library of knowledge" about how to use native plants. Until now, little was known about how this treasure trove of knowledge is affected by th…
Science Writing.- Amazonian societies use about 5,800 plant species, but climate change could reduce indigenous plant species by one third, posing a danger to their culture and knowledge. Reducing the availability of culturally important plants, along with the expected extinction of indigenous languages, could lead to the loss of one quarter of documented knowledge related to the uses of Amazonian plant species by the end of the century. This is…
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