SO much attention has our page on medicinal plants attracted from readers over the past year that we decided to put the man behind it on the cover of this issue of Civil Society. Ganesh Babu is a gifted botanist and an insider to the world of plants in ways that go much beyond the botanical knowledge that he has at his command. He is intuitive and insightful and deeply connected to traditional medicine and its use of plants for public healthcare. Medicinal plants are under threat for two reasons: poor preservation and diminishing knowledge about their uses. . .
