{"id":336579,"date":"2012-12-20T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=33308b08dd6c1d23e7d8fb45c256872a"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:41:05","slug":"frankincense-under-pressure-science-boswellia-trees-and-a-horn-of-africa-resin-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/336579","title":{"rendered":"Frankincense under pressure: science, Boswellia trees, and a Horn of Africa resin trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frankincense<\/strong>, the aromatic resin of <em>Boswellia<\/em> trees, has linked the Horn of Africa and southern Arabia to Mediterranean and Asian markets for millennia. Churches, perfumers, and traditional medicine still depend on it.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-356500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ethiopian-coffee.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Frankincense under pressure: science, Boswellia trees, and a Horn of Africa resin trade\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scientific and agronomic reporting in the 2010s highlighted a worrying trend: over-tapping, fire, land conversion, and poor regeneration threatening Boswellia populations. Researchers asked whether better harvesting rules and cultivation could save wild stands.<\/p>\n<p>For Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan, frankincense is both cultural heritage and rural income. Sustainable resin economies sit at the intersection of ecology, liturgy, and export diversification.<\/p>\n<h3>Sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schweizerbauer.ch\/pflanzen\/spezialkulturen\/geheimnisse-von-weihrauch-gelueftet-rettet-dies-den-baum-vor-dem-aussterben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schweizer Bauer \u2013 frankincense research coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/forestry\/nwfp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAO \u2013 non-wood forest products \/ gums and resins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geheimnisse von Weihrauch gel\u00fcftet &#8211; rettet dies den Baum vor dem Aussterben?&nbsp;&nbsp;schweizerbauer.ch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":356500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ethiopian-coffee.jpg?fit=301%2C167&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1pyH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599640,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336579\/revisions\/599640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}