A Healer's Last Journey: Documenting Endangered Knowledge in the Colombian Andes
Category: IMPACT
After 80 years studying the medicinal plants of the páramo -- an endangered alpine tundra ecosystem -- Mama Margarita says today may be her last time making the eight-hour, round-trip hike into the Andes.
By Megan Taylor Morrison and Monika Wnuk, Contributors, 2014-08-05