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Dive into the database and discover which species are being used, where and how.
What is it being used for? Is the use sustainable?
Is the species in use threatend with extinction?
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Gathering/Cutting/Collecting terrestrial plants and fungi or their products from the wild
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Record: Submission #860
Necrosyrtes monachus
Hooded Vulture
Benin
CR
Critically Endangered
Medicine and hygiene, Collection/display, Ceremony, religious, and ritual expression
Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals
Yes, considered unsustainable
2024
8 months 3 weeks ago
Record: Submission #942
Pterocarpus erinaceus
African Barwood, African Kino Tree, African Rosewood, African Teal, Keno, Senegal Rosewood
Benin
EN
Endangered
Medicine and hygiene
Gathering/Cutting/Collecting terrestrial plants and fungi or their products from the wild
not recorded
2021
2 months 1 week ago
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