Medicinal Plants at Risk

Medicinal Plants at Risk - Center for Biological Diversity

Medicinal Plants at Risk. A Native Plant Conservation Campaign Report. Nature's Pharmacy, Our Treasure Chest: Why We Must Conserve Our Natural Heritage. Page 2 ...

Species At-Risk List - United Plant Savers

“At-Risk” · American Ginseng – Panax quinquefolius · Black Cohosh – Actaea racemosa · Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis · Blue Cohosh – Caulophyllum thalictroides ...

Assessing the risks to valuable medicinal plants in Nepal from ...

A study was conducted to identify high-value medicinal plants in the Annapurna Conservation Area in Nepal and evaluate their potential endangerment.

Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants

Although this threat has been known for decades, the accelerated loss of species and habitat destruction worldwide has increased the risk of ...

Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: problems ...

Factors related to species rarity of medicinal plants. Species rarity is used to assess the extinction risk of medicinal plants, and to ...

European Red List of Medicinal Plants

This assessment includes 400 vascular plants from ninety families, and the good news is it shows that only 2.4% of medicinal plants are threatened. The ...

Impending threats to the plants with medicinal value in the Eastern ...

The medicinal plants of the Himalayas are threatened due to various such as high demand for essential oils, herbal medicines, and pharmaceuticals, unsustainable ...

United Plant Savers medicinal plant at-risk list project

The United Plant Savers (UpS) is known for having developed “The List” of medicinal plants at risk for over-harvest. This list is an important resource for ...

Medicinal plants on verge of extinction | New Scientist

THE health of millions could be at risk because medicinal plants used to make traditional remedies, including drugs to combat cancer and ...

Climate change, land cover change, and overharvesting threaten a ...

Although most medicinal plants are not currently threatened, special consideration in conservation policy is required to reduce future risks of ...

Medicinal plants are threatened with extinction due to climate change

At least one medicinal plant could be lost to extinction every two years.

Plant loss threatens access to modern drugs – DW – 10/12/2020

While concerned conservationists such as Danna Leaman, chair of the IUCN Red List of endangered medicinal plant species, have been sounding the ...

Knowledge of medicinal plants at risk as languages die out

Knowledge of medicinal plants at risk as languages die out ... Knowledge of medicinal plants is at risk of disappearing as human languages become ...

40% of plants are threatened with extinction | Natural History Museum

Six medicinal species of fungi have been assessed, one of which, eburiko (Fomitopsis officinalis), a wood-inhabiting parasitic fungus with ...

Europe's medicinal plants in decline, 2% threatened with extinction

These plants include common and widely-used species such as Arnica (Arnica montana), St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum), Rosemary ( ...

Medicinal plant use, conservation, and the associated traditional ...

The global consumption of herbal medicine is increasing steadily, posing an extinction risk to medicinal plants. Uganda is among the top ten ...

Climate change puts medicinal plants at risk - Thieme Group

The paper's authors catalogue a range of risks for medicinal plants which are directly and indirectly related to climate change. These are ...

Saving Europe's medicinal plants from extinction | Horizon Magazine

Sadly, many of our ancient populations of medicinal plants are now under threat of extinction due to environmental pressure and degradation.

Medicinal plants and unsustainable harvesting: a closer look

A growing demand for medicinal plants has led to unmonitored commercial harvesting, which is considered to be a sustainability threat.

Evaluating natural medicinal resources and their exposure to global ...

... threatened medicinal plants. One example, which is the subject of ongoing ... Transdisciplinary research on the therapeutic properties and extinction risk of ...