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'Diet plant' under threat

It is now under threat after being hammered so hard by people trying to make a quick buck that it may become extinct within two years.

In 2006, about 500 tons of the succulent were cut from the wild for export.

There are calls for a ban on hoodia exports until the authorities are able to control what appears to be extensive illegal harvesting.

Rachel Wynberg, of UCT's Environmental Evaluation Unit, said yesterday: "The resource in the wild is being devastated. We really need to act on the illegal exports."

Wynberg, who spoke at an international workshop in Cape Town dealing with the exploitation of biological resources and indigenous knowledge, said the Northern Cape, Namibia and Botswana were not allowing any of their hoodia to be exported.

The trade in hoodia is controlled by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites).

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