How many people live in the Himalayas?
Himalayas
Most of the population in some Asian and African countries depend on medicinal plants rather than prescriptions and such.[34] Since so many people use medicinal plants as their only source of healing in the Himalayas, the plants are an important source of income. This contributes to economic and modern industrial development both inside and outside the region.[34] The only problem is that locals are rapidly clearing the forests on the Himalayas for wood, often illegally.[43] This means that the number of medicinal plants is declining and that some of them might become rarer or, in some cases, go extinct.