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| Description of a Navaho educational project that involves sustainable production of medicinal and culinary herbs* Navajo Educational Center | |
| Description of Shaman Pharmaceuticals - non-exploitive drug co. that practices ethical reciprocity with indigenous people. also links to related topics* UTNE MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY -- Utne Editors' Book... | |
| United Plant Savers mission is to protect native medicinal plants in the U. S. and Canada. Lots of links to suppliers of plants, seeds and other resources.* United Plant Savers the Herbalists UpS home page | http://www.plantsavers.org/index.html |
| Good description of rainforest plant resources and problems due to exploitation. Many links to databases, articles, drug trials, etc.* Wealth of the Rainforest - Pharmacy to the Wo... | http://rain-tree.com/ |
| Cornell University article on drug selection by indigenous tribes and wild primates.* MEDPLNTS.CNS | |
| Association of American Indian Physicians AAIP - Traditional medicine page - links to plant and herb knowledge, cross-cultural medicine workshops and more.* AAIP - Resources - Traditional Medicine | |
| Report on Bio-Piracy in the Amazon, attempted theft of, ethnobotanical knowledge from shamans. | http://www.cptech.org/ip/amazon.html |