Wisdom from the heart of India.

From: Ecos | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Acharya, Deepak | Copyright information

For hundreds of years, the Bharia and Gond tribes of India's remote Patalkot Valley have eked out a culturally unique and environmentally sustainable lifestyle where plants have played a central role in spiritual beliefs, and the land was treated as Mother. Now, warns Dr Deepak Acharya, an ethnobotanist who has lived at Patalkot for over six years, their remarkable knowledge and inspiring way of life is under threat from outside influences, including the commercial search for the p...

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