Medicinal Plants at Risk - Center for Biological Diversity
as the rates of loss of plants, fish, wildlife, and habitat accelerate (Marinelli, 2005). Each species lost to extinction represents not only the potential loss of life-saving cures for diseases such as cancer or AIDS, but also the loss of possible protein- or …
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