of aspirin from willow bark and the extraction of penicillin from fungi. The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know: Covers the whole Amazonian riverfront: the past, present, and future of a vast earth-supporting ecosystem Explores the variety of life found in the Amazon, from its tiny insects to its massive canopy system Vital to understanding human impact on the world's largest rainforest and current conservation efforts Includes information on all nine Amazonian countries, as well as the indigenous tribes. Watch Mark's TED Talk, What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t Listen to Mark's Podcast, Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation Read Mark's New York Times Editorial, Could the Amazon Save Your Life? References 4. ″Ethnobotanist says life mission to save indigenous culture is native to Judaism″. Retrieved 2019-08-02. 5. ″Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America″. Retrieved 2020-09-30. 6. ″Coronavirus and Conservation: Preventing the Next Pandemic″. Retrieved 2020-04-20. 7. ″COVID is killing Indigenous leaders″. Retrieved 2020-08-11. 8. "https://markplotkin.com". Retrieved 2021-03-27. 9. "https://markplotkin.com/podcast/". Retrieved 2021-03-27. Further reading "35 Who Made a Difference," Smithsonian, November 2005, 38-39, Vol 36, No. 07. External links Mark Plotkin interview: Indigenous people are key to rainforest conservation efforts Mark Plotkin on The Tim Ferris Show: Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America (#469) 21st-century American botanists American anthropologists 1955 births Living people People from New Orleans Harvard Extension School alumni Isidore Newman School alumni Tufts University alumni Ethnobotanists Social entrepreneurs Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni Jewish anthropologists