To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: plants db - indigenous
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:03:59 +0100
> The same happened here in the US northwest with yew trees, whose bark has
a
> cancer-treating compound; now the big yews are gone. The sad part was that
> the damage was all done by local people, destroying their own trees to get
> the money paid by drug companies. I suspect the same happened in Cameroon.