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Gabon’s addiction-curbing iboga plant: cash vs protection complexities
Summary by Ground News
Gabon is one of the few countries where this plant grows naturally. Its popularity has shot up as people continue to uncover its medicinal addiction-curbing properties. But this incentivised plant poachers to target shrubs in Gabon. John Perlman speaks to Ida Risenga, from Wits University's School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences.
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