Only Toker Ban Thi Cuong

The journey from a highland girl to a TikToker loved by the community

From a young age, Ban Thi Cuong witnessed many forests being cut down for farming. The green forests are gradually becoming bare, while many precious medicinal plants, which are invaluable resources of the Dao people, are increasingly scarce and at risk of disappearing.

Those images left her with many concerns. She understands that people in mountainous areas depend heavily on forest resources to live, but if there are no conservation solutions, valuable medicinal resources and ecosystems will increasingly decline.

When she grew up, Ban Thi Cuong decided to use social networks as a tool to spread awareness about nature, the environment and the value of folk medicinal plants. Since then, videos recording the journey up the mountain to find herbs, introducing the uses of medicinal plants and the daily life of the Dao Tien people began to attract a large number of viewers.

Featured content on Ban Thi Cuong's TikTok channel

Introducing folk remedies of the Dao people

One of the most popular content on Ban Thi Cuong's channel is videos sharing folk remedies passed down through many generations in the Dao community.

Through rustic footage, she introduces familiar medicinal plants in the lives of highland people, and recounts stories associated with folk healing experiences and valuable indigenous knowledge.

A journey to find precious herbs in the mountains and forests

Videos recording the process of going through forests and streams to search for precious medicinal plants always receive a high amount of interaction from the online community.

The audience can not only admire the wild beauty of Tuyen Quang mountains and forests but also understand more about the richness of the natural medicinal herbs here. These contents contribute to raising awareness about preserving increasingly shrinking herbal resources.

Promoting Dao Tien ethnic culture

Besides herbs, Ban Thi Cuong also regularly shares about:

• Traditional costumes of the Dao Tien people
• Local customs and practices
• Ethnic cultural festivals
• Highland cuisine
• The daily working life of people

Thanks to her intimate and authentic storytelling, her videos help many people better understand the cultural beauty of the Dao people in Tuyen Quang.

Mission to protect forests and develop sustainable medicinal herbs

What makes Ban Thi Cuong's unique mark is not only her million-view videos but also her dedication to environmental protection.

She always emphasized that the forest is not only the habitat of many species of animals and plants, but also the source of life for mountainous ethnic communities. That's why she actively propagates about:

• Protect natural forests
• Limit deforestation for farming
• Planting trees to cover bare land and bare hills
• Developing sustainable medicinal growing areas
• Preserve precious medicinal plant varieties that are at risk of disappearing

According to Ban Thi Cuong, developing medicinal plants not only contributes to forest protection but also creates long-term livelihoods for highland people, helping to increase income and reduce pressure on natural resource exploitation.