Richard E. Schultes was the preeminent ethnobotanist in the world. He promoted tropical forest conservation across the globe by demonstrating the value of tropical plant species to industry and medicine.Richard E. Schultes is a legendary field biologist, a pioneer in tropical forest conservation and ecology.
He has been described as one of the greatest explorers in this century. A man who has been publishing on the global importance of plant conservation since the 1940’s, Dr. Schultes is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the international conservation movement.