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Medicinal Plants at Risk - Center for Biological Diversity

The Center works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction. Center ...

Medicinal plants on verge of extinction | New Scientist

Medicinal trees at risk include the Himalayan yew (Taxus wallichiana), a source of the anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel; the pepper-bark tree ( ...

Increasing plant extinction threatens the future of medicine and ...

With 45% of flowering plants endangered, a new report reveals that humanity could lose nearly half of its future medicines.

Species At-Risk List - United Plant Savers

“At-Risk” · Oregon Root – Berberis spp. · Osha – Ligusticum porteri · Partridge Berry – Mitchella repens · Pink Root – Spigelia marilandica · Pipsissewa – Chimaphila ...

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

Analysis of the relativeness of the Rare, Endangered, Threatened, Extinct, Vulnerable plants on the basis of medicinal properties provides a key to alternative ...

Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants

Among these, about 15,000 species are threatened with extinction from overharvesting and habitat destruction [8] and 20 % of their wild ...

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 ...

Conservation of Endangered Medicinal Plant Species

This article presents an overview of the situation of medicinal plants availability worldwide and approaches to save these plants and use them with a ...

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

Of the 5,411 medicinal plants that have been assessed, 13% were found to be threatened. ... brink of extinction. It is believed that a rise ...

Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia's medicinal plants

More than half of medicinal plant species in Indonesia won't be able to grow in most of their current range by 2050 due to climate change, ...

Rare and Endangered Plant Spotlights | United States Botanic Garden

Welwitschia is still somewhat common in its habitat and shows variability, a sign that the species is not near extinction. Although the plant is not endangered, ...

6. Loss of biodiversity of medicinal plants

The other endangered species are:Garcinia cambogea, Acacia pinnata, Ficus benghalensis, Zanthoxzyllum rhesta, Hemidesmus indicus, Terminalia chebula, Wrightia ...

10 Endangered Plants with Medicinal Properties - Greentumble

The following are just some of the endangered plants on our planet that are highly valued for the medicines that they provide.

40% of world's plant species face extinction - BBC Wildlife Magazine

Threatened species include Brugmansia sanguinea, a medicinal plant used traditionally for circulatory disorders, which has been listed as ' ...

Rare anti-cancer tree on verge of extinction | Nepali Times

The Himalayan mountains are known as a treasure trove of medicinal plants, many of which have not even been scientifically studied. But one rare tree with ...

Saving Europe's medicinal plants from extinction | Horizon Magazine

Herbal remedies have been handed down through generations for centuries. Sadly, many of our ancient populations of medicinal plants are now ...

Significance of endangered and threatened plant natural products in ...

The extinction of this particular plant would have taken with it promising opportunities to develop unique treatments for the control of two modern-day disease ...

Failure to tap into the myriad uses of plants and fungi is costing ...

723 plants we use for medicine are at risk of extinction. The global demand for naturally derived medicines is threatening some species. New ...

ENDANGERED MEDICINAL PLANTS OF WESTREN GHAT - Ayurlog

20-30 Species of important medicinal plants, which are used extensively in Ayurveda, are at the verge of extinct. These include Saraca indica, Crateva, Embilia ...

Endangered Medicinal Plant Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn ...

The stem is bitter, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, febrifuge and tonic and is useful in vitiated conditions of kapha and vata, ophthalmopathy, wounds, ulcers, ...