Okay gang, WE wants me to back up everything I claim so my wife finally came through, bless her heart! Here 'tis:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...xtinction.html
>>>THE health of millions could be at risk because medicinal plants used to make traditional remedies, including drugs to combat cancer and malaria, are being overexploited.<<<
http://www.wholife.com/issues/10_6/03_article.html
>>>Dramatic declines in wild plant populations, to a great extent, is the result of commercial harvesting, particularly of root harvesting. The harvesting of the entire root means that the whole plant is being destroyed. It is gone forever. Coneflower (Echinacea spp.) is very near to extinction in this province because its root has been over-harvested. Senega snakeroot (Polygala senega) is on Save Our Species “watch list” because many tonnes of the tiny root (averaging 1–2 grams) are being dug by commercial harvesters every year.<<<
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