[MPWG] Fw: Sustainable wild collection of plants - workshop at IFOAM Conference May 2006

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

Below is an announcement for an upcoming workshop of sustainable wild 
collection. 

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Background to the workshop: This workshop is part of the still ongoing 
development process of the ISSC-MAP, which is being implemented by the 
Medicinal Plant Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), 
WWF Germany and TRAFFIC, and the German Federal Agency for Nature 
Conservation (BfN). So far the draft ISSC-MAP has been discussed and 
tested for its applicability in several field projects.
Trade in “organic” wild products is becoming more and more important, not 
only within the food sector but also in the personal health care and the 
medicinal herb sector. These sectors overlap as one species is often used 
for several end products. Currently available certification criteria or 
standards addressing wild collection, as for example organic certification 
schemes, often do not provide sufficient guidance to ensure the long term 
survival of wild populations. The International Standard for Sustainable 
Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP) aims to 
provide this guidance in form of a set of principles and criteria that can 
be applied to the management of medicinal and aromatic plant species and 
their ecosystems. It could also serve as a basic tool for audit and 
certification of wild collection in the organic sector. 

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Dear colleagues, 
We are happy to announce our workshop "Sustainable Wild Collection of 
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Workshop on implementation strategies for 
the international standard". This meeting will take place on May 5th in 
Teslic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a side event to the 1st IFOAM 
Conference on Organic Wild Production.
The meeting addresses practitioners active in the collection, management, 
trade and processing of wild plants, with focus on South-Eastern Europe: 
communities, buyers, processors and users of plants, developers of 
standards and certifications systems, governmental and intergovernmental 
organisations in the sectors and service providers to any of these groups.
Aim of the event is to involve practitioners active in the collection, 
trade and processing of wild plants in the development of concrete 
implementation strategies for wild collection criteria, which are adapted 
to their working and market situations.
Please find attached further information and the registration form. 
For background information please visit our project website 
http://www.floraweb.de/MAP-pro/ or 
http://www.ifoam.org/events/ifoam_conferences/ISSC_MAP_Workshop.html
Please forward this announcement to other interested individuals and 
organisations. 
We are looking forward to meeting you in Teslic. 
Regards 
Britta Pätzold 
Biodiversity, Species Conservation and TRAFFIC
WWF Germany
Rebstöckerstr. 55
60326 Frankfurt/M.
phone: 0 69/7 91 44-1 22
fax: 0 69/61 72 21
mail: paetzold at wwf.de
Internet: www.wwf.de
http://www.wwf.de/Heilpflanzen/

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