The Amazon rainforest houses tens of thousands of ... elder shamans pass on their expertise of medicinal plants and healing rituals to apprentices — children who are otherwise increasingly ...

The traditional shamans and healers of the Amazon Rainforest have been working with some of the most remarkable plants which have both powerful medicinal and psycho-spiritual properties for many ...

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans (11/21/2007) The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) — a group using innovative approaches to preserving culture and improving ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

Many of the wildlife species found in the Amazon Rainforest are endemic. Diversity of plant species There are over 40,000 plant species in the Amazon Rainforest, out of which, a very large number ...

The mightiest rainforest in the world is shrinking ... Home to a staggering number of species of plants, animals, insects, and fungi, the Amazon holds a rich array of the life that exists on ...

accounting for about half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. "The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these emissions," explains atmospheric ...