Traditional Healers Protect a Rainforest in Belize

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Matt Binder reports on Terra Nova, an innovative rainforest reserve in Belize. The government of Belize has entrusted management of the preserve to traditional healers, who tend to the area’s medicinal plants as well as the surrounding ecosystem.

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