[MPWG] New industry standard for collection of wild plants
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Feb 21 14:31:05 CST 2007
Here's a slightly longer article about the new standards:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2007/2007-02-20-01.asp
Global Standard Set for Wild Medicinal Plant Harvesting
NUREMBERG, Germany, February 20, 2007 (ENS) - A new standard to promote
sustainable management and trade of wild medicinal and aromatic plants was
launched Friday in Nuremberg at Biofach, the World Organic Trade Fair. The
standard is needed to ensure plants used in medicine and cosmetics are not
over-exploited.
About 15,000 species, or 21 percent of all medicinal and aromatic plant
species are at risk, according to the report by the Medicinal Plant
Specialist Group of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission that sets forth
the new standard.
See the link above for the full article text. To view the Medicinal Plant
Specialist Group paper with the complete standard, go to
http://www.floraweb.de/proxy/floraweb/MAP-pro/Standard_Version1_0.pdf
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