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  • Harvesting and sale of Yatsa gunbu are featured in the 2008 BBC film documentary Wild China (Episode 3, "Tibet"), and in "Yarsagumbu, l'or de l'Himalaya" (Yarsagumbu: Himalaya's Gold), a French documentary shot in May 2011, which shows a dramatic rise in prices and demand, and the scarcening of crops.

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Further reading

  • Winkler, D. 2005. Yartsa Gunbu – Cordyceps sinensis. Economy, Ecology & Ethno-mycology of a Fungus Endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. In: A. BOESI & F. CARDI (eds.). Wildlife and plants in traditional and modern Tibet: Conceptions, Exploitation and Conservation. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Vol. 33.1:69–85.
  • Yartsa Gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) in Tibet
  • An Electronic Monograph of Cordyceps and Related Fungi
  • Cordyceps information from Drugs.com
  • Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc. Medicinal Plant Images Database (School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University)
  • Tibet's Golden "Worm" August 2012 National Geographic (magazine)