<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>#FairWildWeek is all about celebrating the wild plant ingredients we take for granted everyday. Thousands of them are in trade in 100,000s of products worldwide. See the links below to find out about the issues and how you can be part of the solution.<br></div><div><br></div><div>TRAFFIC is teaming up with FairWild to celebrate wild plants in our lives! Their new report<font color="#000000">, </font><em style="font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Wild at Home</em><span style="font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, highlights how millions of people across the world depend on wild plant ingredients, whether for sustenance, income or as consumers, and calls for sustainability frameworks for the trade in wild plants.</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The report finds that there is simply not enough information on the species and volumes involved in the wild plant trade. The latest IUCN Red List data show that only 7% of plants have been assessed against extinction threat criteria and, by some estimates, between 60–90% of plants used in trade are sourced from the wild.</span>

</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>More info:</div><div><ul><li><a href="http://www.fairwild.org/fairwild-week/" target="_blank">FairWild Week</a> (<a href="http://www.fairwild.org/fairwild-week/" target="_blank">http://www.fairwild.org/<wbr>fairwild-week/</a>)</li><li><a href="https://mailchi.mp/21ec70e1ed4d/fairwild-week-consumers" target="_blank">FairWild & What Consumers Should Know</a> (<a href="https://mailchi.mp/21ec70e1ed4d/fairwild-week-consumers" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/<wbr>21ec70e1ed4d/fairwild-week-<wbr>consumers</a>)</li><li><a href="https://mailchi.mp/545aac79217e/fairwild-week-business" target="_blank">FiarWild Week & What Business Can Do</a> (<a href="https://mailchi.mp/545aac79217e/fairwild-week-business" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/<wbr>545aac79217e/fairwild-week-<wbr>business</a>)</li><li>The TRAFFIC report, <a href="http://www.traffic.org/medicinal-reports/Wild-at-home-vFINAL-web-md.pdf" target="_blank">Wild at Home</a> (<a href="http://www.traffic.org/medicinal-reports/Wild-at-home-vFINAL-web-md.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.traffic.org/<wbr>medicinal-reports/Wild-at-<wbr>home-vFINAL-web-md.pdf</a>)<br></li><li><a href="https://mailchi.mp/traffic/wild-at-home?e=c161c297a8" target="_blank">Full TRAFFIC Press Release</a> (

<a href="https://mailchi.mp/traffic/wild-at-home?e=c161c297a8" target="_blank">https://mailchi.mp/traffic/<wbr>wild-at-home?e=c161c297a8</a>) <br></li><li><a href="http://www.traffic.org/overview/" target="_blank">TRAFFIC</a> is a wildlife trade monitoring network. Their mission is to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. (<a href="http://www.traffic.org/overview/" target="_blank">http://www.traffic.org/<wbr>overview/</a>)<br></li><li>The <a href="http://www.fairwild.org/" target="_blank">FairWild Foundaiton</a>  promotes the sustainable use of wild-collected ingredients, with a fair deal for all those involved throughout the supply chain.(<a href="http://www.fairwild.org/" target="_blank">http://www.fairwild.<wbr>org/</a>) <br></li></ul></div><div>

<span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Go wild for wild plants! #FairWildWeek</span>

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