{
  "id": 743961,
  "title": "How the first published Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/how-the-first-published-indigenous-ethnobotanist-elders-recorded",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-13T07:00:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/how-the-first-published-indigenous-ethnobotanist-elders-recorded-their-peoples-medicinal-knowledge/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "CARAMURU/PARAGUASSU INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Looking at the landscape of dry and cleared mountains around her house, Marta Xavier de Oliveira remembered when it was a forest. “When we got sick, that’s where we got our medicine from,” Oliveira, known as Dona Marta, 87, told Mongabay. An Indigenous elder of the Kariri-Sapuyá people, she stands […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}