The Science of Ethnobotany with Dr. Paul Cox.

Time Magazine previously honored Dr. Cox as one of 11 Heroes of Medicine for his ongoing search for new medicines and plants.
http://www.time.com/time/reports/heroes/plant.html

It is rare for a scientist to be renowned in both indigenous and western cultures. Throughout the islands of Polynesia and Southeast Asia, Dr. Paul Alan Cox is known as Nafanua.
Nafanua is one of the highest chief titles of Samoa, conferred upon Cox in 1989 by the Samoan people for his diligence and work in rain forest preservation. Cox is also known as one of the worlds top ethnobotanists—scientists who study the use of plants by indigenous people.
As an expert in the field of ethnobotany, Cox has served as a professor and Dean at Brigham Young University, and is currently Distinguished Professor at BYUHawaii. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Melbourne, Uppsala University and at Umeå University; and was honored by King Gustav and Queen Sylvia of Sweden, who invited him to present a command lecture in Stockholm. He was later invited to serve as the first King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Science, a gift from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences for the Kings 50th birthday. From 1998 through 2004 he served as Director of the Congressional-chartered National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii and Florida.
Cox currently serves as Director of the Institute for Ethnomedicine, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of discovering new medicines from plants used by indigenous peoples. During his career, he has published more than 150 scientific articles and three books.
Dr. Cox received his undergraduate degree in botany and philosophy from Brigham Young University in 1976, graduating Summa Cum Laude and class valedictorian. In 1977, he received his M.Sc. in ecology at the University of Wales as a Fullbright Fellow. In 1978, Dr. Cox entered Harvard as a Danforth Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow, and in 1981 he received his Ph.D. in biology. He was later awarded a National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator Award by President Ronald Reagan.

Currently, Dr. Cox serves as Chairman of the Seacology Foundation, an organization he founded to assist in preserving island rain forests and cultures. The Seacology Foundation has built schools, hospitals, and water supplies for indigenous peoples on the islands throughout the world, saving hundreds of thousands of acres of precious rain forest and coral reef communities.

Nu Skin Enterprises has teamed up with Dr. Cox and the Seacology Foundation to fund many of these projects.
http://www.seacology.org

Cox is Director of the Institute of Ethnomedicine. His current ethnobotanical research is focused on neurodegenerative illness with the goal of discovering new therapies for ALS and Alzheimers Disease.
http://www.ethnomedicine.org

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[fedeborghesi]

This is what I have dreamed of doing for the past 3 years! I have oriented my education toward it, and, the more I learn, the more I get excited about becoming someone like Dr. Cox. Excellent video!

[freedomallsentients]

I so hope his dream comes true for all of us, including the non-human animals. Ecosystems/environments/habita­ts must not continue to be decimated.

[NoTraceSurvival]

Great video