Table 11 Priority ranking of factors perceived as threats to medicinal plants based on their level of destructive effects in the study area, Wonago Woreda (values 1-6 were given: 1 is the least destructive threat and 6 is the most destructive threat)
From: An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Wonago Woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia
| Â | Respondents (R1-R6) | Total | Percent | Rank | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Factors | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | Â | Â | Â |
Drought | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 16.5 | 4th |
Grazing | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 18.1 | 3rd |
Urbanization | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 11.8 | 5th |
Agricultural expansion | 6 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 31 | 24.4 | 1st |
Fire wood | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 18.8 | 2nd |
Construction | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10.2 | 6th |