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A small group of friends, journalists, and politicians gathered Sunday, Sept. 24, to say goodbye to Plotkin.

The Race To Extract an Indigenous Language From its Last Lucid Speaker. CALLERÍA, Peru — It’s a ritual that Roberto Zariquiey and Nelita Campos have engaged in for more than a decade. The odd couple — Zariquiey, a university linguist conducting postdoctoral research at...

World Rainforest Day 2023: Despite covering only about 6% of the planet's surface, rainforests are home to 50% of the world's plant and animal species

Harvard-trained ethnobotanist and host of the popular podcast Plants of the Gods, Mark Plotkin is no stranger to psychedelic plants. But many people across the world, particularly in countries where these plants have been demonized, may not be as familiar. That’s beginning to change. Today, ayahuasca is arguably the most popular of these, but the […]

Nearly 100 members of Colombia’s Indigenous communities helped search for four children lost in the jungle for 40 days