Building sustainability into the belt and road initiative's traditional Chinese medicine trade

A Hinsley, EJ Milner-Gulland, R Cooney… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A little-known aim of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is 'people-to-people cultural
exchange', including active promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in BRI …

Climate change adaptation for managing non-timber forest products in the Nepalese Himalaya

LJ Gurung, KK Miller, S Venn, BA Bryan - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) contribute to the well-being of mountain communities in
many ways but their availability is being impacted by climate change. Policy and programs …

Contributions of non-timber forest products to people in mountain ecosystems and impacts of recent climate change

LJ Gurung, KK Miller, S Venn, BA Bryan - Ecosystems and People, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are some of nature's most important contributions to
people in mountain regions and their provision is increasingly affected by climate change …

Understanding the sustainability of Chinese caterpillar fungus harvesting: the need for better data

C Smith-Hall, RB Bennike - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Understanding the sustainability of wild-harvested environmental products is essential to
their conservation (Maxwell et al. 2016) and continued contribution to harvester incomes …

A systematic scoping review of tiger conservation in the Terai Arc Landscape and Himalayas

PK Yadav, MTJ Brownlee, M Kapoor - Oryx, 2022 - cambridge.org
In the last decade the tiger Panthera tigris population in the Terai Arc Landscape and
Himalayas has increased, while populations in other countries have remained below their …

The commercialisation of NTFPs and conservation of forest: a systematic review for forestry policy

E Atinga, RK Bannor - Forestry Economics Review, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This current review examines the scientific literature report on non-timber forest
products (NTFPs) commercialisation and forest conservation in different jurisdictions …

A systematic survey of online trade in the caterpillar fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis

R Bashyal, DL Roberts - Oryx, 2024 - cambridge.org
Although wildlife trade has received considerable research and conservation attention,
much of it has been focused on charismatic species, with taxa such as fungi receiving little or …

Hue and cry for Fritillaria cirrhosa D.Don, a threatened medicinal plant in the Western Himalaya

M Mathela, A Kumar, M Sharma, GS Goraya - Discover Sustainability, 2021 - Springer
The unique Himalayan ecosystems are repositories to the wild populations of diverse flora
and fauna. The high value medicinal and aromatic plant species (MAPs) are an example of …

Communicating conservation: how do the Nepalese print media portray caterpillar fungus? An analysis of newspaper coverage from 2008–2021

S Poudel, UB Shrestha, R Pandit, KR Dhital - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) makes an economically important contribution
to livelihoods of the local people in the Himalaya. Its extraordinarily high market price as an …

Farmers and herders reclaim cropland to adapt to climate change in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: a case study in Zamtang County, China

S Wu, J Yan, L Yang, X Cheng, Y Wu - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced rapid warming since the 1980s.
Previous studies, mainly based on theoretical models and remote sensing interpretation at …