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.