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I have always been fascinated by the topic of wild edible and medicinal plants. There is something truly freeing about the ability to collect food and medicine from the wild, without money and without ...

Enhancing Management and Benefit Flows in Viet Nam’s Wild Medicinal Products details the outcomes of a project supported by the UK Government under the Darwin Initiative aimed at improving the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, a group of researchers documented the first observed instance of a wild Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) actively treating a facial ...

Walking on a dirt trail close to Nevada City and Highway 49, Alicia Funk spots food among the common and often overlooked native shrubs, trees and low-lying plants. “Going outdoors and seeing what’s ...

Wild-harvested plants seldom come from large, corporate operations. The first point in the supply chain tends to be local harvesters. Around 3,000 medicinal and aromatic plant species are traded ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...

Potential medicinal uses for wild yam include the treatment of menopause symptoms, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and muscular cramps. Wild yam is a plant that people have used for centuries in ...

Together, we are seeking input from stakeholders from across the entire industry, from harvesting the plants through to manufacturing products which use them, as well as those selling, regulating and ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...