Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants

Abstract: "More than half of medicinal plant species in Indonesia won’t be able to grow in most of their current range by 2050 due to climate change, a new study says. Researchers say medicinal plant species on the islands of New Guinea, Java and Sulawesi will see the largest reduction in distribution area, in part due to sea level rise in these regions. The economic value of medicinal plants in Indonesia, coupled with other threats and a lack of resources for their conservation, makes it urgent that active conservation programs be put in place, the researchers say. Medicinal plants are valuable species not only for personal health but also for their economic value as they are traded by local and Indigenous communities."

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