Tomorrow I’m releasing a powerful new Explorer’s Way episode featuring Beto Borges, and this clip is your chance to meet the man behind the work.
For over four decades, Beto has walked alongside Indigenous peoples and local communities across the Amazon and Latin America…starting as an activist, then moving into rainforest campaigns, pharmaceutical and natural products partnerships, philanthropy, and now leading Forest Trends Association’ Communities and Territorial Governance Initiative.
➡️ Most people don’t realize their daily lives, or even their businesses,
have anything to do with Indigenous peoples, yet anyone working in or consuming the natural products marketplace quite literally has them to thank:
Generations of traditional knowledge about how to use plants safely and effectively are the foundation of so much of what we now consider “modern” botanical and functional products.
This Explorer’s Way Episode- Beto Borges: Indigenous People, Guardians of Biodiversity, dropping tomorrow on LinkedIn (and out now on You Tube on the Ethnbotanical Explorer channel), is an invitation to recognize those roots, rethink our relationship to Indigenous territories and knowledge, and consider what real respect and reciprocity could look like going forward.