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PRESENTED PAPERS 19 Sustainable use of medicinal and aromatic plants in Europe 13 Susanne F. Schmitt 1 and Susanne Honnef 2 1 WWF-UK, Panda House, Weyside Park, Godalming, United Kingdom 2 WWF-Germany/TRAFFIC-Europe Germany, Frankfurt, Germany The trade in European medicinal plants is long established but has been growing rapidly over the past decade. An estimate 150 European medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are threatened in at least one European country by this trade and by habitat loss. The conservation community, concerned practitioners and the more aware consumer are calling for sustainable herbal products. To date only few companies are concerned about sustainable and ethical sourcing. Cultivation is generally seen as the main solution. Indeed, there is much to be said for cultivation both from a commercial as well as conservation point of view. In this paper, however, we would like to emphasize that cultivation cannot be the sole solution in the context of a complex trade in many hundreds of species, predominantly harvested from the wild, providing livelihoods for large numbers of people in numerous European countries. Efforts of domestication should be coupled with measures to achieve sustainable management for controlled wild harvesting. In this context a number of potential strategies aimed at more sustainable sourcing are highlighted and some of the existing initiatives of WWF-UK and WWF-Germany/TRAFFIC- Europe Germany presented. The relevance of the European Plant Conservation Strategy (http://www.plantaeuropa.org/html/plant_conservation_strategy.htm) and its specific MAP target, imbedded in the wider context of the newly adopted Global Strategy for Plant Conservation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (http://www.biodiv.org) are stressed. We hope that the ECP/GP Working Group on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants takes the points raised into consideration and seeks collaboration with the wider MAP conservation community, interested companies and government bodies. Information sources Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y. 2000. Medicinal plants in the hidden land of Dolpo: working with Himalayan healers at Shey Phoksundo National Park. People and Plants Video (26 minutes). Garg, M., S. Honnef and R. Melisch. 2002. Medizinalpflanzen: rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen und Möglichkeiten der Verankerung von Prinzipien der Nachhaltigkeit. Diskussionsvorlage für das 2. AG Treffen zum Thema "Nachhaltige Nutzung von Heil-, Kosmetik- und Gewürzpflanzen" am 24.04.2002 in Schwäbisch-Gemünd [Medicinal plants: legal prevailing conditions and possibilities to embody principles of sustainability. Contribution to a discussion at the 2 nd Working Group Meeting on "Sustainable utilization of medicinal, cosmetic and spice plants", 24.04.2002, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany]. WWF-Germany/TRAFFIC-Europe Germany (unpublished report). Laird, S.A. and A.R. Pierce. 2002. Promoting sustainable and ethical botanicals: strategies to improve commercial raw material sourcing. Rainforest Alliance, New York (http://www.rainforestalliance.org/news/archives/news/news44.html). Lama, Y.C., S.K. Ghimire and Y. Aumeeruddy-Thomas. 2001. Medicinal plants of Dolpo: Amchis’ knowledge and conservation. WWF Nepal program, Kathmandu. 150pp. Lange, D. 1998. Europe's medicinal and aromatic plants: their use, trade and conservation. Traffic International, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 77pp. 13 Summary of the presentation made at the meeting.
20 WORKING GROUP ON MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS: FIRST MEETING WHO (World Health Organization). 2004. WHO guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants (http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/ medicinalplants/agricultural.shtml). WWF-Germany. 2000. Apotheke Wildnis: Naturmedizin boomt auf Kosten der Natur [Drugstore Wilderness: Natural medicine booms at nature's expense]. WWF Journal 4/2000.
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