Warming could ravage a third of plants used by Amazon communities

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For centuries, botanists and travelers have ventured into the Amazon region to record which plants indigenous communities used for food, medicine, and rituals. That work is far from finished: about half of the indigenous groups in the area have barely been scientifically documented. A new study in Springer Nature sharply highlights that blind spot […] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.

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A research shows that man-induced climate changes can impact the forest's heritage and reduce by up to one third the native plant species used by indigenous peoples in the Amazon basin. According to studies, the reduction of plants of cultural importance, combined with the projected extinction of indigenous languages, can result in the loss of about a quarter of documented knowledge about the uses of Amazonian plant species until the end of the …