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Re: plants db - indigenous
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: plants db - indigenous
- From: "keller" <ak.and.ak@on-line.de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:03:59 +0100
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- References: <LISTMANAGER-137331-37359-2001.12.31-12.55.29--ak.and.ak#on-line.de@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> 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.
Your suspicion is right.
More on this :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/audiovideo/programmes/crossing_continents/a
frica/newsid_1443000/1443574.stm
Happy new Year
Andreas