Data Accessibility and
Benefit-Sharing
Data Accessibility
Sequence data have been deposited on the NCBI GenBank database under the
accession numbers (to be added later). Data collected during tissue
sampling are available as Supplementary Material S1.
Benefit-Sharing
Benefits Generated: The research conducted provides a first step to
collaborative conservation planning for use of herptiles in traditional
medicine contrary to current approaches that scarcely consider that
South African legislation allows the country’s citizens to utilise its
natural resources within the confines of laws that provide for
Indigenous knowledge systems to be considered in conservation planning.
Benefits Generated: This research provides details about the practices
of traditional health practitioners and also their willingness for
collaboration is managing the use of herptiles in traditional medicine.
Conservation practitioners can utilise these details to make their
planning more integrative.