Fascinating paper: our global stores of ethnobotanical knowledge (with several uses in medicine) are under threat. What Jordi & Rodrigo's work shows is that, in order to protect that knowledge, we need to focus on protecting indigenous languages.https://www.pnas.org/content/118/24/e2103683118 …
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30% of the ~7k languages in the world are going extinct by the end of the century. Knowledge will be lost..
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But we also have plant biodiversity loss..so the study tries to understand whether we are losing medicinal knowledge because the languages are disappearing or because plants are disappearing.
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In other words lots of plants *and* lots of languages are disappearing. But in the case of medicinal plant knowledge in particular, language is at higher risk of extinction than the medicinal plants themselves. Magad that's terrible..
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