In this article, Filipe Ribeiro covers the conservation challenges surrounding kambô. The kambô frog’s secretions are used in traditional practice among several Indigenous peoples in the southwest Amazon. With the growing global demand for kambô, some have suggested that the Indigenous approach to collecting the frog’s secretions is harmful to the frog. Ribeiro urges the West to not rush to hasty and superficial judgments regarding traditional practices.

Roger Heim (1900-1979) was a French biologist whose research into psychedelic mushrooms transcended interdisciplinary and transnational lines. Heim collaborated with major figures in the mid-twentieth century psychedelic community, including the Wassons and Hofmann, and appraised their use in divination.