Amazon-Medicine
Date: 18-Nov-09
Country: BRAZIL
Author: Sergio Moraes
Photo: Sergio Moraes
Brazilian researchers arrive on the Cuieiras river to collect plants in Sao Sebastiao de Cuieiras in the Brazil's Amazon rain forest Brazilian October 30, 2009.
Finding the right material is no easy task in the world's largest rain forest that can have up to 400 species of trees and many more plants in a 2.5-acre (1-hectare) area, and in a country where suspicion of outside involvement in the Amazon runs strong.
