Michael Stuart Ani

Michael Stuart Ani is one of the very few people alive who has received presidential permission from the Venezuelan government to live among the uncontacted Amazon tribes of the Yanomami. He earned this honor by using both traditional and modern medicinal methods to fight epidemics among the Yanomami for 14 years. Ani is a 30-year inductee of the Explorers Club and is a recognized authority on pre-Columbian rituals, with expertise in ethnobotany and Talking Plants.

Stuart Ani is dedicated to advancing the use of botanical cures to promote the healing of the planet and her people. His mission is to share what he has learned in his fifty-five-year journey among the most remote tribes of the Americas in hopes that his message will further efforts to heal the planet. He believes that the health of the world depends on humanity realizing that medicinal plants are the key to the future.

With the Amazonia Foundation, Michael Stuart Ani brought the rainforest movement to Los Angeles in the 1980’s. In 1992, he co-won the “Best of Festival” and “Best of Broadcast” from the US Environmental Film Festival for Yanomami: Keepers of the Flame. He also directed Going Home, a documentary for the Catalina Island Conservancy, that tells the story of the repatriation of the last, purebred American bison to the Lakota people.

Napoleon Chagnon, world-renowned anthropologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, said of Ani, “Michael gave a brilliant account of his work with the Yanomamo. He is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and has their best interests at heart.”

H. B. Nicholson, professor emeritus of anthropology at UCLA, and renowned specialist of the study of ancient Mexico, called Ani a living artifact.

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