permaculture

["Emily A. Noble" <guinep@theriver.com>]

Title: Re: Plant based latex

A friend who lives in an area that used to have lots of milkweed on her farm says last year she spotted only one milkweed on a neighboring farm's soybean field.....she harvested the seed and spread them far and wide hoping this year they will be back en masse.
Here's an alarm most of you may already be aware of....reason some harvesting of wild plants could be regulated:THIS STRESSES ME OUT -- I NEED A NICE CUP OF HERBAL TEA
The growing popularity of herbal medicine, particularly in Western countries, is threatening the survival of a number of valuable wild plants, according to delegates to the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, this week. Trade in at least 14 plants is already regulated because demand for herbal medicine is putting pressure on the species, and another six, including Asian ginseng, are being considered for regulation. Up to 600 kilograms of Asian ginseng are smuggled each year out of Russia, one of the few places where the plant grows. Illegal gathering of North American ginseng is also a problem. Poachers recently cleaned out all the healthy wild ginseng populations in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina.

straight to the source: Planet Ark, Reuters, Kieran Murray, 04.14.00
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=6383
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>From: Judith Hanna <jehanna@gn.apc.org>
>To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Plant based latex
>Date: Thu, Apr 13, 2000, 11:01 AM
>

>After all the irrelevant chit-chat on this list, at last something of
>permacultural value! Thank you, Ava.