Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used to Treat Human and Livestock Ailments in Hulet Eju Enese Woreda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Table 8

Ranking factors threatening medicinal plant species in the study area.

Threat factors	Respondents										Total	Rank
	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10
Agricultural expansion	4	4	5	5	4	5	5	5	4	4	45	1^st
Firewood and charcoal	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	4	4	5	44	2^nd
Overgrazing	5	4	5	5	4	5	4	4	5	4	40	3^rd
Drought	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	38	4^th
For construction	3	4	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	5	36	5^th
For medicinal value	1	2	3	2	1	2	3	2	3	3	22	6^th

Ranking was done based on the use criteria rated as 5 = extremely high, 4 = very high, 3 = high, 2 = low, and 1 = very low.