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Iboga Sustainability
Preparing for a Sustainable Future
iboga Sustainability
Respect for the ecosystem
Due to the various dangers faced by the Tabernanthe iboga tree, we at getibogaine.com, fight for its survival by engaging in acts of iboga sustainability. We have farms in Central Africa for this purpose.
Over the years, reliable information has surfaced suggesting that the Tabernanthe iboga plant may disappear from its natural habitat in the Central West African rainforest.
The Iboga plant is the most prolific source of ibogaine, an alkaloid that has been used since the 1980s as an experimental treatment for substance use disorders.
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What Is Iboga?
The Tabernanthe iboga plant, which only grows in the equatorial Central West African rainforest, produced ibogaine.
The majority of these rainforests are in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon. Human-caused factors threaten the availability and sustainability of the iboga tree in its many ecosystems.
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How Is Iboga Threatened By Extinction?
First and foremost, the sustainability of the Tabernanthe iboga tree is in great danger because more people are aware of it than ever before.
More people are practicing the Bwiti religion, a Central West African religion that uses the iboga plant as a sacrament, than ever before, and the positive news of its use for transformation in the West, particularly in treating addiction recovery, is now out and widespread.
Although ibogaine treatment in the United States is still illegal, its legality and use in countries such as Mexico, South Africa, New Zealand, Netherlands, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Brazil has gradually resulted in many addiction recovery centres emerging to help people detox and recover from drug addiction.
Due to these two rapid changes in a short time, there has been a higher demand for iboga than in the past. Although steps are being undertaken to keep iboga available and sustainable, this is probably the largest single threat to the plant and substance overall.
Due to the rapid knowledge of the use and importance of the iboga plants specifically in the treatment of addictions, also the increase in the practice of the Bwiti religion which uses iboga as sacraments and for divination, and also due to the increase in population amongst other reasons, the availability of the iboga tree is rapidly decreasing to a near extinction level.
Just as we at getibogaine.com, we take the sustainability of iboga very seriously, if everyone works together for the sustainability of iboga to make small changes, then large changes will begin to appear.
We want iboga to be available to not just people in need in the western world for many generations to come, but we also need to engage in actions that will keep it available to traditional practitioners for religious use as well.
