When dingaka tsa Setswana hurt the environment :: Mmegi Online

Botswana's medicinal plants face growing pressure from unsustainable harvesting, raising concerns about biodiversity loss and the future of Setswana traditional medicine. PAULINE DIKUELO explores the environmental risks and efforts to protect indigenous resources while ensuring communities benefit from their natural heritage

MAUN - Traditional medicine remains an important part of healthcare and cultural heritage in the country, with indigenous plants valued for their medicinal properties. However, the harvesting of these natural resources, particularly their roots, is raising concerns about the sustainability of traditional healing practices and the protection of biodiversity.

The challenge is to ensure that knowledge passed down through generations does not come at the expense of the very plants on which traditional medicine depends.

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