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Ranking of commonly reported threats against medicinal plants in the study area
| Major Treats | Informants Labelled K1 to K10 | Total Score | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K1 | K2 | K3 | K4 | K5 | K6 | K7 | K8 | K9 | K10 | |||
| Deforestation | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 2 |
| Agricultural expansion | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 47 | 1 |
| Timber & firewood making | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 40 | 3 |
| Plantation of exotic species | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 5 |
| Over exploitation | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 4 |
