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This article first appeared in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on April 28, 2025 - May 4, 2025 In April 2016, as part of a nature conservation organisation, I found myself in a small canoe travelling upriver on the Caura, a tributary of the mighty Orinoco. This biodiversity-rich Venezuelan watershed borders the Amazon basin and is home to several indigenous tribes and local communities who roam the jungles in search of non-timber forest products (NTFPs). At that time of year,