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Yes you right, Wallpatta (Gyrinops walla) is not endemic to Sri Lanka. Instead of the wet zone of Sri Lanka, wallapatta had been very rarely recorded in extreme Southwest India. However, recent reports of the abundance of wallapatta in India are hard to find. Same situation in other few southeast countries which wallapatta had been found. Even in Sri Lanka wallapatta is restricted to the few areas. It makes this plant endangered in Sri Lanka. Therefor, there are highly possibilities to extinct this valuable medicinal plant from the whole world if it vanish from this small country. Over harvesting and low natural regeneration are accelerating the decrees of the wallapatta population.
Other hand, Gyrinops walla is highly valuable medicinal plant. If we do certain way this plant bring high income for the country. For that, we should make value added product from this plant. But in these illegal cases they export only raw parts of the wallapatta without processing. Also they sell those in black-market. So as a country we gain very low economic value than its really are.
Those are the reasons to impose rules against exporting wallapatta.
if it's not endemic to srilanka or freely available in other countries, why these buggers impose rules on felling and selling? wallapatta@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteYes you right, Wallpatta (Gyrinops walla) is not endemic to Sri Lanka. Instead of the wet zone of Sri Lanka, wallapatta had been very rarely recorded in extreme Southwest India. However, recent reports of the abundance of wallapatta in India are hard to find. Same situation in other few southeast countries which wallapatta had been found. Even in Sri Lanka wallapatta is restricted to the few areas. It makes this plant endangered in Sri Lanka. Therefor, there are highly possibilities to extinct this valuable medicinal plant from the whole world if it vanish from this small country. Over harvesting and low natural regeneration are accelerating the decrees of the wallapatta population.
ReplyDeleteOther hand, Gyrinops walla is highly valuable medicinal plant. If we do certain way this plant bring high income for the country. For that, we should make value added product from this plant. But in these illegal cases they export only raw parts of the wallapatta without processing. Also they sell those in black-market. So as a country we gain very low economic value than its really are.
Those are the reasons to impose rules against exporting wallapatta.