Around eighty percent of medicinal plants used worldwide for both domestic use, sale and export are wild harvested. As markets increase for medicinal plant products, wild populations are being depleted, often at the expense of local livelihoods. It has been suggested that experimentation in management techniques (through participatory research) with harvesters is essential to curb this overexploitation which threatens both forests and the people dependent upon them.

Sustainability is a cornerstone of Bulk Botanicals mission, philosophy, and operations. Too much of the herbal supplement and nutrition industry relies on non-sustainable wild-harvesting practices. Consequently, many mainstream medicinal plants and once abundant native/endemic plant species are now threatened. Combine this trend to commodify threatened wild plants with worldwide deforestation, and it's not too hard to see that many valuable, under-researched medicinal plants may be lost to future generations.

It is for this reason that we at Bulk Botanicals have gone to great lengths to ensure that all plant material that is sold by us, where wild harvesting is used, has been done so responsibly.