Tropical forests provide many non-timber products (NTFPs) such as, charcoal, wild fruit, bushmeat, mushrooms, roots and fodder, used by numerous communities around the globe for income diversification and also as safety nets during times of resource scarcity and disaster. Medicinal plants are also widely used to cure a wide range of ailments (e.g. back pain, cold, diarrhea, malaria, measles, rheumatism, worms, etc.), especially in cases when income for the purchase of pharmaceutical products…
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