sustainability is a problem everywhere sadly.
I live in a forest and watch day by day as the sacred three to four hundred year
old bioshpere is depleted before my very eyes wiping out many herbs and leaving
a once fertile place depleted and dry.
Those of us who are concerned need to do something before it is too late.
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and also, we do have to be aware of the sustainability of this
product - it would be a crying shame to see further depletion of
India's already threatened sandalwood simply because a hungry foreign
appetite for it, a situation that is similar for several traditional
Ayurvedic plants, e.g. Kustha, Katuki, etc