Official name
"The Ethnobotanical Society: an international home for research and education in ethnobotany"
Nick name
Ethnobotanical Society
Purpose and Mission
Our main objective is to promote ethnobotanical research in all aspects of human and plant interaction especially in conservation of nature and natural resources, food security and healthcare services.
The Ethnobotanical Society is a not for profit international professional organization dedicated to the relationships of plants with human cultures worldwide, including past and present relationships between peoples and the plants. We are committed to scholarly research and inclusive relationships with communities and colleagues around the world. The Society will help authors to get their usual work published in existing well known international and local journals that cover ethnobotanical research. However, the Society will offer two publications a peer-reviewed series namely World Ethnobotany Review: an occasional series of the ethnobotanical society and a news letter namely Ethnobotanical News Letter: an official publication of the ethnobotanical society covering news and popular articles to promote peoples knowledge about Ethnobotany.
The Society will organise International Seminars to promote Ethnobotanical research and education.
As a member of The Ethnobotanical Society, you will become part of a community of people interested in the interaction of humans with plants and animals. Our membership includes researchers and scholars in the fields of ethnobotany, students initiating ethnobotanical studies, and interested people from all areas of people and plant interaction. We provide a forum for discussion and publication of research in historical and contemporary ecological knowledge, paleoethnobotany, environmental history and prehistory, cultural and political ecology, and ethnography of natural products.
Membership
Membership is open to anybody interested in Ethnobotany. For more detail please contact ethnobotanygroup@gmail.com.
