Forest Healing - Madagascar

July 1995
For sixty million years the forests of Madagascar have evolved in splendid isolation.

Their ecology is unique and biologists are busy cataloguing one of the world's last great storehouses of genetic diversity. But it is a race against time. For the past 1500 years ago humans have slashed and burned their way across the island. At the current rate all of Madagascar's forests will be gone in 30 years. But a unique partnership between a traditional healer and a biologist looks set to succeed where other more traditional approaches to conservation have failed. Biologist Dr Nat Quansah and healer Ndrunulla are teaching people to value the forest's traditional herbal cures. Their health clinic uses natural drugs of the 'pharmacy in the forest'

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Category:

News & Politics

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• Madagascar
• Herbal
• Drugs
• Health
• Forests
• news
• documentary
• current affairs
• journeyman
• journeyman pictures

[darkheart110]

I love these little videos.

I love learning about different cultures around the world!

Turkey. Malawi. Mexico.

Every nation has their own story.

Thanks for posting these up, mate.

[Joelkeys]

Why hate?

[1NX9]

@darkheart110

You should have became a cultural anthropologist.

Cheers!

[CrashThomasRacing]

Turkey is different,everybody must know that

[mataram123]

@Numinds2012 Africa can't feed itself. lol.

[Numinds2012]

The need to stop eating that acidic rice!- any fool knows that Africa has all it needs without some stuffy southeast asian rice moving in on the scene. They can't keep their forest because they choose to go against nature with foreign grain instead of what's already been provided for them by nature in that place- for goodness sake people were talking about one of the most beautiful places on earth here not some scratched out city in the dust! Wake UP!

[ramanatsirofo]

45 % of madagascar is fro asianpeople.and malayu language...they language is like bahasa indonesia ..thailand language, tagalogue and malayu

[THOBIAS84]

in one sense malagasies are lazy practicing slash and burn, in the end they will have nothing left, if they want to survive they will have to start with paddie rice, if they can do it in south east asia, so also in madagascar, its up to agriculturists to teach them how,

[galadriaal]

That was great. I really hope that the conservation efforts will work in the long run.

[kewlkewl12]

malagasy right? part of the malay-polinesian language family.

[truthspeaker969]

thank you purplehazygirl, great docu

[CarlosTadeus]

exelent documentary !!