Reproduced with permission from Atlas Obscura The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves. Cherrapunji is credited with being the wettest place on earth, and The War-Khasis, a tribe in Meghalaya, long ago noticed...
Contributed to the ISE Newsletter by R.P. Harisha1 Of the over 15000 (33.1%) higher plant species in Indian tropical forest, a wide range of them are harvested for WEH purposes. In particular, dozens of plants are used as wild food plants; harvested from and around arable fields, scrub wood lands, wetlands, and homesteads. Several families of plants are used, with the genera Amaranthus, Cleome, Solanum and Dioscoria being the most conspicuous....
Contributed to the ISE Newsletter by Harisha Ranganahalli Puttahariyappa I have been chronicling the use of Wild Edible Plants (WEPs) species in the Male Mahadeshwara (MM) Hills Reserve Forest region since 2009. The motivation for this study came through interactions with the community, which time and again returned to the subject of disappearing useful species. MM Hills communities , being in a reserve forest area, have always had access to...
Global Environments: Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World Munich International Summer University; 1 – 24 August 2012
Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Rachel Carson Center and the Global Diversity Foundation announce GESA 2012: the second Global Environments Summer Academy on Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World, to be held as part of the Munich International Summer University (MISU) in...
To host the 15th ISE Congress of ethnobiology in 2016 The Call for Proposals is now closed. The Board of the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) welcomes proposals to host the 15th ISE Congress, to be held in 2016. Institutions or groups interested in hosting the Congress should submit proposals by Thursday, 1 March 2012 as a Word or pdf document to Natasha Duarte, ISE Coordinator, with a copy to Leslie Main Johnson, ISE secretary....
