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How Large Is the Wild Theobroma cacao Population?

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Cultivated cacao is grown across the tropics in the billions of trees, but the ancestral wild population in the Amazon basin has never been adequately censused, which is why the IUCN rates the species Data Deficient rather than assigning it a threat category with a population figure.

What would resolve this A systematic field survey of wild Theobroma cacao stands across the Amazon basin, of the kind IUCN Red List assessors have run for better-studied tree species.
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