Orchids are among the most threatened taxa globally due to increasing anthropogenic
threats, inherent rarity and specific conservation needs. But what are the global research …

With global biodiversity in decline, there is now an urgent requirement to take ameliorative
action for endangered species in the form of re-introductions. For the highly diverse orchid …

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Threats to orchid survival continue to intensify, with> 50% of the orchids that have been
assessed for the IUCN Global Red List falling in to one of the categories of threat. Despite …

Background Poverty is pervasive in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. Most of the people survive by
farming small landholdings. Many earn additional income by collecting and selling plant …

The Orchidaceae family accounts for about 28,000 species, and most of them are mentioned
in the folk medicine of nations around the world. The use of terrestrial orchids in European …

The demand for wildlife products drives an illegal trade estimated to be worth up to $10
billion per year, ranking it amongst the top transnational crimes in terms of value. Orchids …

Plants are a crucial biological component of the biosphere in the earth. The plant resource
has served the humankind in several ways by providing food, feed, medicine, nutraceuticals …

Dune sands have low shear strength due to weak particle structures and lack of bondings.
Environmental challenges, sandstorms for instance, can be occurred by the wind. Therefore …

In eastern Mediterranean countries orchids continue to be collected from the wild for the
production of salep, a beverage made of dried orchid tubers. In this study we used nrITS1 …