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World's Biggest Pharmacy May Have Short Shelf-life
NBC Nightly News
with Anne Thompson

In an effort to find viable economic alternatives to the logging that threatens to decimate the Peruvian Amazon, natives are looking to sell their medicinal plants on the Web. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.

“We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.” – Chris Kilham, NBC Nightly News

September 2008