Case studies on medicinal plant conservation

Plantlife is building a portfolio of case studies on medicinal plant conservation. Please contact Plantlife International if you have examples from which you think others could benefit.

Traditional doctors and medicinal plant conservation

• Development of a methodology on medicinal plant conservation to strengthen amchi medicine in Ladakh, India
  
  • Project report (September 2005 - February 2006)

Industry's role in medicinal plant conservation

• Pukka Herbs



• Review paper on sustainable harvesting (pdf 536KB). From Plant Talk No. 43, pages 32-35 (2006). Reproduced with permission.



• Sustainable wild harvest: issues of definition

Gentiana punctata, a medicinal plant
in Macedonia
©Alan Hamilton

PURPOSE AND LIMITATIONS OF CASE STUDIES

The case studies are intended to draw attention to practices that might be of value to people wishing to contribute to conservation of medicinal plants. The inclusion of a case study here does not imply Plantlife’s endorsement of any particular organisation or product. The case studies have been compiled in good faith based on information at hand. Commercial companies collaborating in preparing case studies have agreed not to exploit comments given here for promotional purposes.

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