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March 2007
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Written by Carolina Bruun
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Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:08 |
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Used for centuries as a natural disease prevention and physical stimulant, an Amazonian tree frog has become a symbol of Brazil's fight to benefit the Indigenous from scientific developments based on their knowledge. There are more than one hundred frog species in the Amazon forest. For modern science, it would be unthinkable to start doing tests on people's bodies to know the effects of these secretions on human health. But indigenous communities in Brazil show that living in the jungle for centuries makes things different.
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