While accountable wild-harvesters will only take a section off of the top of the cactus and also leave a few millimeters for it to grow back, the demand of peyote has resulted in a boost in less educated harvesters taking bigger parts of the plant than required, bring about a stable downward fad of the population of L. williamsii.Looking fairly comparable, poachers usually blunder L. williamsii and Astrophytum asterias, a seriously threatened cactus, for each other. Each cactus has a demand in illegal markets, which drives the illegal harvest of these 2 species.