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What
are the specific human pressures?
1. Shifting cultivation, cutting of trees for
fuelwood, and use of orchids for traditional ethnic medicine are some
example.
Are there any
pressures to
collect the orchids for orchid collectors or commercial operations? Yes, large
quantities of orchids are being collected and sent to Ayurvedic companies in
India as well as to be used as aphrodisiac.
Brajesh
Steve Topletz |
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