David Steinman
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 Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act, the endangered species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and also established the Environmental Protection Agency."
You have to stand for something or you will fall for anything. So figure out what you stand for and don't back down, especially with your back at the gates of hell. But be smart. Here's a story that will illustrate what I mean. George Simeon was chief executive of Organic Valley, a cooperative of mostly small organic dairy, cattle, hog, and livestock farmers. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 But I can test the opposite proposition: Medicinal plants tend not to be rare and endangered; in particular, they tend not to be on the endangered species list. Only two of the 659 taxa listed on the U.S. endangered species list were used medicinally by Native American people;* if all were random, we would expect about 10 percent of them to be so used, or about 65 of them. This difference is highly statistically significant (%2 = 73.4, p = 0.0000).
I can also directly test the proposition that drug plants are more widespread than others. |
Devra Davis
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 In a world where information on the health and safety of workers remains locked up in company files, wrapped in the protections of confidentiality, independent information and independent experts to make sense of it are an endangered species.
We have seen repeatedly how some people in industry, whether tobacco, asbestos, benzene or vinyl chloride, understood risks long before the rest of us were able to learn about them. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Viewed globally, humanity need not face a stark choice between eating and saving endangered species. Protecting biodivetsity does not necessarily require sacrificing productive agricultutal land because soils with high agticultutal productivity tend to support low biodiversity. Convetsely, areas with high biodiversity tend to be areas with low agricultural potential. In general, species-rich tropical latitudes tend to have nutrient-poor soils, and the world's most fertile soils are found in the species-poor loess belts of the temperate latitudes. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Any known endangered species must be left alone; do not harvest it from the wild. With any species, identify the grandfather/mother plant in a stand of plants—it's usually the largest or the first to flower— and leave it to ensure the continuation of the strongest of the species. Never take more than 10 percent of what's there. Vary the places you collect from.
Collect plants in a way to ensure the continued survival of the species. If all you need are the leaves and flowers, take only some tops from the plants; cutting back plants in this manner can actually help promote new growth. |
Stacy Malkan
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 In the early 1990s, Bryony worked for a conservation organization on protecting endangered species habitats. Through that experience, she also became all too familiar with the male-dominated culture of environmental organizing. There were hardly any female leaders in the work, even though women from polluted communities seemed to be the ones who had the most passion for the issues. "I would see women come to meetings and get engaged but they wouldn't stay engaged," Bryony said. "They would be very concerned and they would say, 'What can we do? |
David Steinman
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| Stephen Meyer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded, "Anecdotes notwithstanding, the data compel us to reject the argument that higher numbers of endangered species are associated with poor economic performance."13
Meyer went state by state to simultaneously rate states by how strict their environmental regulations were and how much economic strength they exhibited in terms of job generation and building and construction projects. |
Ann N. Martin
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 These broad-winged fliers are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Eagle Protection Act, and endangered species Act," writes Kate O'Rourke from the AVMA. "Maximal fines for killing a bald eagle or another bird protected by the EPA or ESA can run as high as $100,000 for an individual and $200,000 for an organization."24
Raptors are not the only wildlife suffering secondary sodium pentobarbital toxicosis. The National Euthanasia Registry cites a case reported by Terry Grosz, a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent. |
David Steinman
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| Our import operations are in full compliance with the Convention on International Trade in endangered species, to which the United States is a party. We are also committed to following the laws of the countries of origin for the tropical wood products we purchase, especially those laws that apply to the harvest, acquisition or export of these products. As a member of the International Wood Products Association (IWPA), BlueLinx supports IWPA's efforts to promote compliance, by all parties, with national, state and local laws and regulations pertaining to logging and forest management. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At the same time, due to the massive harvesting effort of wild hoodia gordonii (the raping of the land, actually, for this lucrative herb), South Africa, Botswana and Namibia have classified hoodia gordonii as an endangered species. Its harvesting and exporting is now controlled and must be authorized by the government.
The real thing: a CITES certificate
In South Africa, this authorization is provided by a CITES certificate. C.I.T.E.S. stands for Convention on International Trade in endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Buckbean is considered an endangered species in some regions. ment or poultice to treat bruises and snakebite and to stop bleeding.
Edible Uses
The young shoots can be consumed fresh in spring salads. The roots are edible raw or cooked, but they are not very tasty and are considered only a survival food.
Other Uses
A black dye can be made from the plant. |
David Steinman
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| Help them save elephants, orangutans, and other endangered species by adopting a portion or all of a wildlife corridor or preserve. www.wwf.org
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Alex Steffen
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 As with carbon credits, land developers and owners can satisfy the law through "conservation banks," which protect land containing endangered species, and "mitigation banks," which protect wetlands and streams. In both cases, businesses putting habitats or wetlands at risk are required to purchase credits from other landowners who have legally committed to protecting their land permanently through the "banks." The "bankers" can sell these credits on the open market, sometimes at levels far exceeding traditional real-estate values. |
| For landowners in the United States (developers, utility companies, state transportation agencies, farmers, retailers, and others), ecosystem credits can help turn land-use conflicts into win-win relationships that protect both the environment and companies' bottom lines. The endangered species Act and the Clean Water Act both require land developers to make up for any harm they do to streams, wetlands, or habitats critical to endangered and threatened species. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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| The gathering of rare and endangered species, such as Panax ginseng, Coptis chinensis, Gastrodia elata, and Paris polyphylla, should be prohibited.
Gene banks of medicinal plants should be established. At present, quite a number of important Chinese medicinal plants have already been preserved in a gene bank under the auspices of several agricultural institutions. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Squatter's rights" still prevail, and poor, hungry people show little enthusiasm for arguments about the value of biodiversity or the plight of endangered species when they struggle daily to feed their families. These landless peasants and settlers follow the logging companies down the roads they have built to extract timber into untouched rainforest lands, burning off whatever the logging companies leave behind.
The present approach to rainforest cultivation produces wealth for a few, but only for a short time, because farming burned-off tracts of Amazon rainforest seldom works for long. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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 According to the Convention on International Trade in endangered species (CITES), Cetraria islandica is an endangered species and subject to EU trade directives requiring the issuance of a "non-detriment finding" report from the exporting country. In Germany, both species of Cetraria are listed in Annex 1 of the German Federal Ordinance on the Conservation of Species (BArtSchV), requiring permits for import or export.
Constituents: Over 50% water-soluble polysaccharides (according to Ph. Eur., the swelling index of the powdered drug is not less than 4.5 |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Convention on International Trade in endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Hoodia gordonii was added to the CITES schedule during a 2004 meeting in Bangkok. The official CITES listing for hoodia now reads:
Botswana , Namibia , and South Africa submitted a proposal to the 14th Conference of the Parties of CITES to list all species of Hoodia on Appendix II. This proposal was accepted in January 2005 and it is now prohibited to trade in any parts and derivatives of any Hoodia species without a permit. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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| With the demise of the world's tropical rain forests, such work is compelling before the great chemical diversity, contained within these endangered species, is lost."15
Traditional The therapeutic dosage is reported to be 2 g, three times daily, in capsules or Preparation tablets. A standard infusion (1 cup three times daily) or a 4:1 standard tincture (2-4: ml three times daily) can be substituted if desired.
Contraindications Graviola has demonstrated uterine stimulant activity in an animal study (rats) and should therefore not be used during pregnancy. |
Josef A. Brinckmann and Michael P. Lindenmaier
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| According to the Convention on International Trade in endangered species (CITES), Cetraria islandica is an endangered species and subject to EU trade directives requiring the issuance of a "non-detriment finding" report from the exporting country. In Germany, both species of Cetraria are listed in Annex 1 of the German Federal Ordinance on the Conservation of Species (BArtSchV), requiring permits for import or export.
Constituents: Over 50% water-soluble polysaccharides (according to Ph. Eur., the swelling index of the powdered drug is not less than 4.5 |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are companies that will post counterfeit CITES certificates -- Convention on International Trade in endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a document required to sell hoodia and verify that it has been obtained through legal channels. They can fake the lab tests by submitting a genuine batch for approval and then replacing it with adulterated material in the actual production run. They can steal CITES certificates from other companies and then use Photoshop to replace the company name. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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| Hawaii's native fauna is particularly endangered; 274 of 659 endangered species are found in Hawaii.
Twenty-three percent of North American weeds are used as medicinals, while only 7 percent of nonweedy species are used as medicinals (%2 = 795, p = 0.0000). Medicinal plants tend to be weeds.
Using somewhat less precise data and working only to the level of the genus, it is also possible to show that medicinal plants are far more likely to appear in gardens, or in a list of plants of virtue for the garden compiled in Ortho's Guide to Successful Gardening. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 According to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body made up of the world's leading climatologists and other scientists, the predicted level of warming—up to 10°F by the end of this century—will bring on a disaster of biblical proportions: a rise of sea levels by nearly 3 feet; unendurable heat in many parts of the world; a vast increase of vector-borne diseases; raging floods and storms. A change upward of ten degrees may not seem like much until one realizes that lowering it by the same amount would bring on another ice age. |
Carlo Petrini
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 The purpose was, and is increasingly, clear:
Homo sapiens must regain his wisdom and free himself from speed, which can reduce him to an endangered species.[... ] Against the universal folly of the fast life we must choose the defense of calm material pleasure. Against those, the majority, who confuse efficiency with frenzy, we propose the vaccine of an adequate dose of guaranteed sensual pleasures, to be administered in slow and prolonged enjoyment. |
Peter Pringle
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 Margaret Mellon, Union of Concerned Scientists, 2001
On the question of endangered species, most people cannot get worked up about the snail darter, the dwarf wedgemussel, or the oval pigtoe. Mention the possibility that the hairy rattleweed or the mat-forming quillwort is stressed out and a hiking club somewhere might be moved to protest. But suggest that the life of the common and beloved monarch butterfly might be at risk from human hands and a whole nation starts making posters. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| Prescription for extinction: endangered species and patented oriental medicines in trade. Washington, DC: TRAFFIC USA. 1994
20. Convention on International Trade in endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), CITES Secretariat, Convention Documents, September 1997, Geneve, Switzerland
FURTHER READING
1. Fratkin J. Chinese herbal patent formulas. Portland, OR: Institute For Traditional Chinese Medicine. 1986
2. Hu X. Complete collection of TCM secret formulas, vol I, II, III [Chinese], Shanghai, PRC: Shanghai Weng Hui Bao Press. 1990
3. Leng F. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Saponins for pharmaceuticals
* Trillium erectum is unfortunately now an endangered species and should not be used.
Table 6.4. Sources of Cardioactive Saponins
HERB
ACTIONS
Convallaria majalis (iily of the valley)
Cardioactive, diuretic
Digitalis spp. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 1Michael T. Murray, ND
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| The Bastyr project, called the endangered species Project (ESP), is creating a database listing all common Chinese herbal formulations, with their respective ingredients, sold in the United States. The database indicates which products and traditional formulas contain endangered or threatened species according to Appendices I, II, and III of the Convention on International Trade in endangered species Of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).20
DISPENSARY GUIDE
The 10 Chinese prepared medicines described in Table 94. |
| Bastyr University's Department of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine has been conducting an in-depth study of the endangered species used in the practice of Chinese herbal medicine. The work at Bastyr has forged strong relationships with conservation groups, federal agencies, consumers, students, and others at institutions involved in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. The Bastyr project, called the endangered species Project (ESP), is creating a database listing all common Chinese herbal formulations, with their respective ingredients, sold in the United States. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| Some of the primary remedies for the female reproductive system, widely used by the Eclectic, Physiomedicalist, and Thomsonian herbalists of previous centuries, are now seriously endangered species. Currently, the most problematic of these plants are:
Chamaelirium luteum (false unicorn root)
Cypripedium spp. (lady's slipper)
Trillium erectum and T pendulum (beth root)
The fact that healing plants of this importance have become endangered to the degree that they have is one of the signs of the ecological holocaust that humanity has wrought. |
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