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How Indigenous insight inspires sustainable science

The forest of the Amazon Basin is inextricably bound up with the lives of the Indigenous peoples living there. Find out how they feel about the forest, use what it provides, and try to protect it from aggressive commercial exploitation.

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My rainforest upbringing

In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.

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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona

Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.

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Seeds for the future

Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.

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  • Cholera Hospital, Oxford: near the Oxford Canals. Line engraving by J. Fisher after T. Taylor junior.
  • Liver with suppuration extending along the portal canals
  • Liver with suppuration extending along the portal canals
  • Osteocytes, canaliculi and haversian canals in bone, LM
  • Civil engineering: canals (below), and a photometer (above). Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Cross section of the pulp chamber and root canals of the molars.
  • International Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929: figures from paintings by El Greco, Goya and Velázquez, representing Spanish art. Colour lithograph by R. Canals y Llambi, 1929.
  • Eusthenopteron Foordi. Whiteaves. Right mandible in outer view, sensory canals outlined in Chinese white.
  • The ear: three diagrams showing the microscopic structure of ampulla of the semicircular canals. Colour lithograph by F. Foedisch, ca. 1875.
  • Surgery: instruments for the treatment of cataracts and fistulas of the lacrimal canals. Engraving by R. Benard after Louis-Jacques Goussier.
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