Table 9 Threats to medicinal plants in the study area
Major threats | Respondents | Score | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | |||
Grazing | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 6th |
Construction | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 41 | 3rd |
Agriculture | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 42 | 2nd |
Charcoal | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 45 | 1th |
Fire wood | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 38 | 4th |
Drought | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 5th |