Из захоронений великих деятелей культуры все чаще похищают... черепа! Почему именно они интересуют странных "коллекционеров"? Какой мистической силой обладают разные части человеческого тела?
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Orchids are especially vulnerable to overharvesting because many species occur in one location and have low population densities.
“You only have to collect a few here and there to potentially wipe out an entire species,” says Jacob Phelps, co-chair along with Amy Hinsley of the orchid specialist group with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which sets the conservation status of wildlife species.
Some orchids have been shown to be at risk of extinction if as little as 5 percent of the population is harvested.
Most people are familiar with orchids as ornamental plants—they come in a huge variety of colors, shapes, and sizes—and buy them to keep at home simply because they’re attractive. Serious collectors and breeders are always looking for the newest and rarest.
Orchids are also consumed: Vanilla beans are from orchids—mostly farmed—and the starchy tubers of certain wild orchid species are boiled, dried, and ground up to make powder for salep, a traditional Turkish drink, or chikanda, a central African cake made of ground orchid tubers and peanuts.
Plus there’s their use in traditional medicine. In China the dried stems of dendrobium orchids make shi-hu, which is believed to help with fevers, dry mouth, and other ailments. Nepal’s Ayurvedic medicine also uses as many as 94 different orchid species to treat a variety of ailments.
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