News Headline
Amazon frog highlights appropriation of Indigenous knowledge for commercial gain
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2022-05-31
The Amazonian giant leaf frog, or kambô (Phyllomedusa bicolor) has bulging eyes and bright green skin, and despite its name, is actually quite small. It’s perhaps best known for its skin secretion, a mucous substance with medicinal properties that several Amazonian Indigenous groups have used for centuries — and which is also attracting the attention of foreign biopharmaceutical companies.