And there is [was] a big push in the 1990s of pharmaceutical companies trying to join up
with ethnobotanists and look for medicinal plants, but I think they are always trying to do it as quick as possible, so they didn't always pay attention to these things.
Not exact matches
Our
ethnobotanists are constantly searching for new plants, while our 8 purchasing offices located around the world ensure a secure supply through local partnerships
with growers and producers.
The domestication of the chinense species occurred around 2000 B.C., and, according to
ethnobotanist Barbara Pickersgill, «it was probably connected
with the development of agriculture in tropical forests.
I network and collaborate
with botanists, evolutionary biologists,
ethnobotanists, zoologists, ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and hydrologists.
In conjunction
with the exhibition, Stella Maris Atelier announces the publication of Olfactory Code D4, a new series of scents developed following conversations between Linder, the perfumer Persephenie, and the
ethnobotanist Maria Blum, director of Stella Maris Atelier.
Dr. Mark Plotkin, an
ethnobotanist who heads the Amazon Conservation Team, a group that works
with tribes to protect rainforests in Suriname, Colombia, and Brazil, agrees.
Most of what I know comes from spending time
with knowledgeable friends who are herbalists, survivalists,
ethnobotanists and primitive skills enthusiasts.