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In Honor of World Nature Conservation Day, Jaguar Health Announces Planting of More Than 1.1 Million Trees in Peruvian Amazon
Activities support sustainable supply of Jaguar's botanical drug crofelemer, the active ingredient in the company's FDA-approved human drug Mytesi® and FDA
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[{"type":"text","content":"Activities support sustainable supply of Jaguar's botanical drug crofelemer, the active ingredient in the company's FDA-approved human drug Mytesi® and FDA conditionally approved animal drug Canalevia®-CA1SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / July 27, 2023 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAGX) (\"Jaguar\"), in honor of World Nature Conservation Day, July 28th, announced that Jaguar, together with its predecessor companies, and working with Indigenous communities, has successfully planted more than 1.1 million trees in the Peruvian Amazon since 1992. This effort has been part of the company's commitment to biocultural conservation in tropical forest ecosystems and the development of new therapeutics from rainforest plants.Croton lechleri Tree\"On July 28th each year the global conservation community seeks to raise awareness of the importance of conserving and protecting the Earth's natural resources,\" said Steve King, PhD, Jaguar's Chief Sustainable Supply, Ethnobotanical Research, and Intellectual Property (IP) Officer, who has been conducting research in the Amazon and other tropical forests for more than 40 years. \"Each year, the impact of climate change poses more severe challenges to greater numbers of people across the globe. Reforestation programs around the world are crucial to help mitigate global warming, a major factor influencing climate change around the world. Humanity's well-being - now and into the future - is dependent on nature for clean water, food, fuel, healthy air, and often for important medicines. Many new medical treatments have resulted from compounds discovered in Earth's oceans and from plants in Earth's forests, and many of these have been discovered through leads based on the knowledge from Indigenous cultures who have a long history of use of plants and fungi in healing. We are grateful to these peoples both for their wisdom and for their dedication to the conservation and sustainable management of the ecosystems that are essential to planetary health.\"Jaguar company Napo Pharmaceuticals (Napo) has been working on the long-term sustainable management of the Amazonian Dragons blood tree, or \"sangre de drago\" (Croton lechleri), from which crofelemer, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the Jaguar's FDA-approved oral botanical drug, is extracted and purified. Since 1992, key Napo partners have been r...