Prof. Long talks about religious plants of the Dai people with his students at Xishuangbanna.
Prof. Long Chunlin, an ethnobotanist at the CAS Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), has been chosen by the Society of Ethnobotany of India as a laureate of the Harshberger Medal for his outstanding contribution in the field of ethnobotany. The announcement was made recently in Luchnow of northern India, and the award will be conferred at the 10th International Congress of Ethnobiology to be held in 2006 in Thailand.
Prof. Long started his disciplinary exploration and relevant applied research in this field in 1986. Among the 110 research papers and 17 monographs to his credit, the majority is devoted to ethnobotany, bio-diversity and floral research of economic plants. His primary achievement is to apply the disciplinary principles to the protection of native bio-diversity and socio-economic development in the communities of the ethnical peoples in southwest China and his work leads to new developments of the discipline in China.
The Medal was set up to honor international scientists for their contributions to the field of ethnobotany. Dr. J. W. Harshberger was a scientist who coined the term Ethnobotany and founder of the discipline. The bi-annual prize is conferred by the Society of Ethno-botany which is now headquartered in India's National Botanical Research Institute. In the first session of the Prize in 1994, it was given to Prof. Pei Shengji, a KIB reserchers and Prof. Richard Ford of the US.
