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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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Decorative and aesthetic
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Keeping/companionship/display
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Yes, considered unsustainable
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Practice of use
Record considered ecologically sustainable / unsustainable
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Record: Submission #71
Panthera pardus
Leopard
South Africa
VU
Vulnerable
Other -- Ceremony and ritual expression, Decorative and aesthetic
Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals
Yes, considered unsustainable
2020
2 years 3 months ago
Record: Submission #930
Conophytum achabense
Unknown
South Africa
CR
Critically Endangered
Keeping/companionship/display, Decorative and aesthetic
Gathering/Cutting/Collecting terrestrial plants and fungi or their products from the wild
Yes, considered unsustainable
2022
4 months ago
Record: Submission #927
Encephalartos aemulans
Ngotshe cycad
South Africa
CR
Critically Endangered
Keeping/companionship/display, Decorative and aesthetic
Gathering/Cutting/Collecting terrestrial plants and fungi or their products from the wild
Yes, considered unsustainable
4 months ago
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