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 Stories About: Asia AND China AND wildlife
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Homeocidal
Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species |
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09 Jan 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ... |
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| Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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See Ya Later ...
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21 Aug 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| See Ya Later ... With fewer than 130 of them left in the wild, Chinese alligators may become the first crocodilian to become extinct in the wild, according to a study that will be published soon in the journal Biological Conservation. The alligators, native to lakes and wetlands in the lower Yangtze River Valley, have lost most of their habitat to fish ponds, rice paddies, and, increasingly, development. Not every single bit of hope ... |
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| Topics: Asia, China, wildlife (all these topics) |
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