Costa Rica
Ethnobotanist Jonathon Miller Weisberger has spent the past three decades studying rainforest plant medicine traditions in Ecuador and Costa Rica. In the 90s he participated in historic rainforest conservation projects, such as: The protection of Napo-Galeras National Park and the demarcation of the Waorani people’s ancestral homelands. Firsthand experience among five of the region’s indigenous people’s communities allowed for his passion for plants to grow into in-depth ethnobotanical studies of the rainforest and her medicines. Since 1996 he has organized biannual “Rainforest Medicine Council Gatherings,” these being experiential workshops journeys, for “Personal, Community and Planetary Renewal,” offering participants an intimate opportunity to meet and learn from cultural adepts, the mighty rainforest and the omnipotent plant teachers! His book “Rainforest Medicine – Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon” was published in 2013 (www.rainforestmedicine.net). He is the steward at Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica, where he lives most of the year since the year 2000. (www.oceanforest.org) He also oversees the Cocoterra Rainforest Permaculture project (www.rainforestpermaculture.org)
Website: www.rainforestpermaculture.org, www.oceanforest.org