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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Richard Evans
Schultes Award
To increase the visibility
of the contributions of ethnobiology, and to foster and
give due recognition to those who further the field, The
Healing Forest Conservancy presents an annual award to
a scientist practitioner, or organization that has made
an outstanding contribution to ethnobotany or to indigenous
people issues related to ethnobotany. The award honors
the name of Richard Evans Schultes, widely recognized
as one of the most distinguished figures in the field.
Schultes received the annual Gold medal of the World Wildlife
Fund from the organization's then president, Prince Philip
of the United Kingdom, The Tyler Prize for Environmental
Achievement and the Linnean Gold Medal. He also was awarded
the Cross of Boyaca, the highest award of Columbia, where
Schultes conducted most of his research. A two million
acre portion of Columbia's Amazon forest was named "Sector
Schultes" in his honor.
Richard Schultes earned his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard,
where he now serves as Professor Emeritus, and is intemationally
renown specialist in the botany of rubber trees, medicinal
plants and hallucinogens. He has published over 400 technical
papers and nine books, including, with Robert Raffauf,
The Healing Forest (1990) and Vine of the Soul
(1992). The Healing Forest Conservancy is named after
their 1990 book.
Schultes'deep respect for the Indians of the Northwest
Amazon is legendary, but best related in his own words:
The accomplishments
of the aboriginal people in learning plant properties
must be a result of a long and intimate association with,
and utter dependence on their ambient vegetation. This
native knowledge warrants careful and critical attention
on the part of modern scientific methods. If phyto(-hemists
must randomly investigate the constituents of biological
effects of 80,000 species of Amazon plants, the task may
never be finished. Concentrating first on those species
that people have lived and experimented with for millennia
offers a short-cut to the discovery of new, medically
or industrially useful compounds.
The international
Nominating Committee for the Award is chaired by Micheal
J. Balick, Ph.D., Philecology Curator of Economic Botany
and Director of The New York Botanical Garden's Institute
for Economic Botany. 'ne awards have been presented during
meetings of the Society of Economic Botany, of which Schultes
is a founding member. The Society was founded in 1959
as an international scientific organization, to further
ethnobotanic research and to disseminate results through
meetings and publications.
Submissions should be made to Katy Moran at The Healing
Forest Conservancy by I May. East Coast Office: 3521 S
Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA. Phone/Fax: (202)
3333438. West Coast Office: 213 East Grand Avenue, South
San Francisco CA 94080 USA. Phone (415) 952-7070 Fax:
(415) 873-1463.
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