“This is the first time that we have observed a wild animal applying a quite potent medicinal plant directly to a wound,” said co-author Isabelle Laumer, a biologist at the Max Planck ...

Wild great apes often consume medicinal plants that can treat their ailments. The same plants are often used by local people ...

Wild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain ... “We were looking for these behavioural clues that the plants might be medicinal,” Dr Freymann explained. She described one particular chimp ...

The Bill, introduced by environment minister Bhupender Yadav amid a din, also aims to reduce pressure on wild medicinal plants by encouraging cultivation of such plants and facilitate transfer of ...

Given researchers in 2018 identified “increasing demand for raw plant material from the pharmaceutical industry” as resulting in “further overharvesting of wild medicinal plant species” in the ...

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant. After researchers saw Rakus applying the plant poultice to his face, the wound closed up ...

There are more than 100 wild animal species unique to China ... 2,000 species of edible plants and over 3,000 species of medicinal plants. Ginseng from the Changbai Mountains, safflowers from ...

The overexploitation of 25 species of host plants valued for their medicinal properties has affected swallowtail butterflies ...

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On October 10, the Verkhovna Rada increased fines for illegal collection of nuts, mushrooms and berries.A total of 242 ...

The law on increasing fines for picking mushrooms, nuts and berries in areas where it is prohibited was sent to President ...