“What’s wrong with your foot?” asked the medicine man as I ducked into his grass hut to escape the tropical downpour. He could see that I walked with a slight limp. Like many an aging athlete, I had ...

Deep in the Suriname rainforest, an innovative conservation group is working with indigenous tribes to protect their forest home and culture using traditional knowledge combined with cutting-edge ...

“The forest is alive. It can only die if the whites continue destroying it. If they do, rivers will disappear under the earth, the soil will crumble, the trees will wither, and the stones will melt in ...

The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) — a group using innovative approaches to preserving culture and improving health among Amazonian rainforest tribes — has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Nature’s ...

In the Amazon forests of Peru, Stroud learns the plant medicine of the Huacharia Tribe. Traveling by plane, bus, boat and finally on foot, Stroud reaches the home of the deeply spiritual Huacharia ...

SHAMANS OF THE AMAZON is a personal account of filmmaker Dean Jefferys as he returns to the Amazon with his partner and one year old daughter. They journey deep into the Ecuadorian rainforest to learn ...

(Joe Seamans, a writer, paid a visit to the Huaorani. The Huaorani, like the Yanomami featured in NOVA: Warriors of the Amazon, live in the Amazon and have a strong shamanistic tradition. This is his ...

Native communities in Brazil’s far western Amazon region have been shaken by the loss of a highly respected shaman, whose death from a snakebite has underscored the precarious state of the country’s ...

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