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Climate, Biodiversity, and Plant Medicines

Miriam Volat, Mona Polacca, Chief Nixiwaka Biraci Yawanawa

Indigenous plant medicines and practices are inextricably tied to traditional lands. The growing combination of colonialism, extraction, and climate change increasingly threatens both these ways of life, and their sacred plants. Join this session to learn what will happen if no intervention is made, and what still might be possible. How do we know that supporting traditional Indigenous Medicine conservation is directly supportive of climate and biodiversity conservation?

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