Trudie Styler Instagram – Today, I wanted to share with you a much loved project supported by the @rainforest_fund 🌱. It caught my attention last year for its outstanding contribution towards protecting the world’s rainforest, its inhabitants and its precious resources. The Kaibi indigenous community living in the Amazon’s Xingu Park are paving the way by recording and monitoring the forest’s abundance of medicinal plants 🍃. Painstakingly, the Kaibi have studied and surveyed their land, documenting each and every plant in their ecosystem for its potential health benefits. Their aim has been to preserve and strengthen indigenous knowledge in the use of medicinal plants and the value of preserving the forests. Gaining knowledge from their elders they have created an encyclopaedia of plants and the best way to use them in treating illnesses. This ingenious project has set up kitchen garden nurseries in each of their villages to cultivate the most vital plants needed. This played a vital role during the covid pandemic when locally grown remedies undoubtedly saved countless lives. We have much to learn ourselves from these projects, about the health benefits of the world’s rainforests and its plant life, including the much known periwinkle flower a powerful remedy in fighting childhood leukaemia. We are so thankful for all these initiatives which seek to preserve the beauty of the rainforest, while demonstrating how to harness its magical powers, in a sustainable way. 🌱🍃💚 #rainforest #medicinalplants #brazil