🌿 In the Bribri community of Amubri, life blooms in every direction — cacao, yucca, bananas, and fruit trees fill the patios, while the mountains cradle the medicinal plants that have healed generations. Eufrasia López, a Bribri elder, walks with 30-year-old Ema Sánchez, sharing the names and uses of each leaf and root in their ancestral language. Together, they collect plants to prepare vaho, a traditional steam remedy that clears the lungs — and reconnects Ema to the culture she’s reclaiming. Through ASOETEBRI, Bribri elders are hosting monthly workshops on food sovereignty and ancestral knowledge. With support from the Re:wild-hosted Mesoamerican Territorial Fund, developed in partnership with alianzabosques, these efforts are already strengthening 48 families directly and benefiting over 150 people, while reviving ancestral seed production and passing down the knowledge that keeps the forest alive. For the Bribri, cultural survival and environmental stewardship are one and the ...