Stories
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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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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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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Peru correspondence
Date: 1961-1990Reference: SA/ILE/G/2/31/1Part of: Archive of the International League Against Epilepsy- Pictures
- Online
Peru: a cinchona forest; a shelter and figures in a clearing. Reproduction of an engraving, 1750/1850.
Date: 1750-1850Reference: 564660i- Archives and manuscripts
Peru
Date: 1970-1990Reference: PP/MCD/B/2Part of: Papers of Dr Colin McDougall (1924-2006)- Archives and manuscripts
Peru
Date: 1965-1966Reference: WF/C/E/05/2/16Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Peru
Date: 1968-1969Reference: WF/C/E/06/6/6Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd