Honoured to share that @IngridOlivaresa and I have started a beautiful project with the @TaironaTrust and the #Kogi Indigenous People of #Colombia to #restore degraded lands and revive #water in the #SierraNevadadeSantaMarta Thread 👇 (1/11) The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is a @UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1979. It has the world’s highest coastal peak (5730m) and all the climatic zones of tropical America: from mangroves to glaciers.

New paper in @PNASNews with Jordi Bascompte where we show that each Indigenous language is a unique reservoir of medicinal knowledge— a Rosetta Stone for unravelling and conserving nature's contributions to people. @UZH_Science pnas.org/content/118/24… Thread 👇(1 /13) Most indigenous peoples transmit their knowledge orally. Therefore, if a language stops being transmitted, it could occur that an entire living library also disappears (Photo by Richard Evans Schultes: a Macuna medicine man gathering Banisteriopsis caapi, Colombia, 1952)(2/13)