Wild collection and sustainability

ISSC-MAP The International Standard on Sustainable Wild Collection ol Mediqnal and Aromatic Plants... 

Leaman, D.J., 2006. Sustainable wild collection of medicinal and aromatic plants. In Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, R.J. Bogers, L.E. Craker, and D. Lange (eds.), pp. 97 107. Dordrecht, the Netherlands Springer. 

Medicinal Plant Specialist Group, 2007. International Standard for Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP). Version 1.0. Bundesamt fiir Naturschutz (BfN), MPSG/SSC/IUCN, WWF Germany, and TRAFFIC, Bonn, Gland, Frankfurt, and Cambridge. BfN-Skripten 195. 

The recognition that active ingredients extracted from native herbs may have potential utility in modem medicine has given new incentive to worldwide efforts to conserve vulnerable populations of wild plant species.50 During the past decade, market demand for Chinese herbs around the world has increased sharply. And these resources have been avidly sought as raw material by drug processors in the East as well as the West. As a result of mass collecting, many natural habitats and the plant communities which they sustain have been decimated and some species are threatened or have become scarce. 

Virdi, M. (2004). Wild plants as resource new opportunities or last resort Some dimensions of the collection, cultivation and trade of medicinal plants in the Gori basin. In Alam, G., Belt, J. (Eds.), Searching synergy stakeholder views on developing a sustainable medicinal plant chain in Uttaranchal, India, KIT Bulletin n° 359, KIT Publishers, Amsterdam, p. 41-54. 

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