Last week, the Mongabay media carried out a report on the Jajen Saima’a Ethnobotanical Herbarium in Mocoa, Putumayo, a space that houses 22,000 samples of plants and integrates scientific knowledge with the ancestral knowledge of the indigenous, peasant and Afro communities living in the department. However, it does not have funding or a fixed headquarters. Context. The Herbarium was created in 2022 by the Putumayo Technological Institute, now t…
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Last week, the Mongabay media carried out a report on the Jajen Saima’a Ethnobotanical Herbarium in Mocoa, Putumayo, a space that houses 22,000 samples of plants and integrates scientific knowledge with the ancestral knowledge of the indigenous, peasant and Afro communities living in the department. However, it does not have funding or a fixed headquarters. Context. The Herbarium was created in 2022 by the Putumayo Technological Institute, now t…