Medicinal plant conservation

Anonymous, Directory for Medicinal Plants Conservation Networks, Organizations, Prefects, Information Sources, lUCN/SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist... 

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This initiative has resulted in the setting up of a network of 55 Medicinal Plant Conservation Areas (MPCA) across different forest types and altitude zones in these five states of peninsular India. The most important purpose of this network of MPCAs is that it serves as the gene bank of medicinal plant resources of the region. The network of MPCAs captures the inter and intra specific medicinal plant diversity of peninsular India. The MPCAs capture around 2000 medicinal plant species, which represent 50% of the medicinal plant diversity of the five states, and significantly includes over 75% of the RED Listed Species of these states. For all the MPCA sites, detailed floristic studies on medicinal plant diversity including the threatened, traded and endemic plants have been undertaken. 

In the purpose of educating villagers and increasing their knowledge of medicinal plants and traditional health practices, a Medicinal Plants Conservation Park (MPCP) has been developed by CCD in Madurai district in a campus named Sevayoor. The park consists of an... 

Ethno-Medicine Forest (EMF) spread over 33 acres with a collection of over 500 plants species. This park has been conceived as an open space where humans, in this case local villagers, other communities, students etc. can come to see all the medicinal plants available in the zone and to learn about their different therapeutical uses. Similar regional resource centres are also being set up at Natham and Nagapattinam, which function as Community Conservation Centres (CCC) as well, owned and managed by the local communities, facilitated by CCD. These environmental grassroots initiatives serve as supportive means in the process of sound medicinal plant conservation. 

On the occasion of programs such as local healers conventions and village botanists workshops, local communities in village learned new skills of identification, herbarium preparation and new uses of medicinal plants. This has helped them in recognition of the importance of medicinal plant conservation and protection. Thus, GMCL contributed to a shift from a form of individual knowledge and awareness of resources conservation, mainly possessed by the folk healers, towards a form of collective knowledge and awareness of medicinal plant maintenance, more diffused at the wider community level. 

Robbins CS, Comparative analysis of management regimes and medicinal plant trade monitoring mechanisms for American ginseng and goldenseal, Conserv Biol 14 1422-1434, 2000. 

Leaman DJ, Conservation, trade, sustainabifity and exploitation of medicinal plant species, in SaxenaPK, (ed.), Development of Plant-Based Medicines Conservation, Efficacy and Safety, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 1—15, 2001. 

Aloe (Aloe arborescens) is a medicinal plant rich in aromatic polyketides such as pharmaceutically important aloenin (a hexaketide pyrone), aloesin (a heptaketide chromone), and barbaloin (an octaketide anthrone) (Fig. 4a). Pentaketide chromone synthase (PCS) and octaketide synthase (OKS) are novel plant-specific type III PKSs, which were obtained from the aloe plant by RT-PCR cloning using degenerate oligonucleotide primers based on the conserved sequences of known CHS enzymes [30-33]. The deduced amino acid sequences of PCS and OKS are 91% identical (368/403), and show 50-60% identity to those of other CHS superfamily type III PKSs of plant origin OKS shares 60% identity (240/403) with CHS from... 

The Chiang Mai Declaration, in The Conservation of Medicinal Plants, ed. O. Akerele, V. Heywood and H. Synge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1991, p. xix. 

Farnsworth, N.R. Soejarto, D.D. In The Conservation of Medicinal Plants, Proceedings of an International Consultation, 1988 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Akerele, O. Heywood, V. Synge, H., Eds Cambridge University Press Cambridge, 1991, pp. 25-51. 

Keywords ecosystem conservation, management programs, medicinal plants, sustainable agriculture, threatened species, wild harvest. 

Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants found in the wild (in situ),... 

Bemath, J. (1999). Biological and economical aspects of utilization and exploitation of wild growing medicinal plants in middle and south Europe. In Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Human Welfare. WOCMAP II. Biological resources, sustainable use, conservation and ethnobotany. ISHS (Acta Horticulturae 500). Caffini, N., Bemath, J., Craker, L., Jatisatienr, A. and Giberti, G. (eds.), pp. 31-41. Leuven, The Netherlands. 

Bodeker, G., Bhat, K.K.S., Burley, J., and Vantomme, P. Eds. (1997). Medicinal plants for forest conservation and health care. Rome, FAO (Non-wood Forest Products 11). 

GOSL. (2004). Implementation Completion and Results Report. Sri Lanka - Conservation and Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants Project. Ministry Health and Indigenous Medicine/ Provincial Councils. South Asia. Report No. 29629. 

Leaman, D. (2002). Medicinal plants. Briefing notes on the impacts of domestication /cultivation on conservation. Paper for the "Commercial captive propagation and wild species conservation" workshop, 7-9.12.2001, Jacksonville, FL, USA. 

Pei, S. L. (2002). Ethnobotany and modernisation of traditional Chinese medicine. In Workshop on wise practices and Experimental learning in the Conservation and Management of Himalayan Medicinal Plants. Katmandu, Nepal. 

Schippmann, U. (1997). Plant uses and species risk. From horticultural to medicinal plant trade. In Planta Europaea. Proceedings of the first European Conference on the conservation of wild plants, Hyeres, France, 2-8 September 1995. Newton, J. (ed.) pp. 161-165. Plantlife, London. 

Subrat, N. (2002). Ayurvedic and herbal products industry an overview. In Workshop on wise practices and experiential learning in the conservation and management of Himalayan medicinal plants. Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Nepal, the WWF-Nepal Program, MAPPA and PPI. Kathmandu, Nepal. 

Verlet, N., and Leclercq, G. (1999). The production of aromatic and medicinal plants in the European Union. An economic database for a development strategy. In Medicinal plant trade in Europe. Proceedings of the first symposium on the conservation of medicinal plants in trade in Europe, 22-23.6.1998, Kew. TRAFFIC Europe, (ed.), pp. 121-126, Brussels, Belgium. 

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