CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS SEMINAR.ppt

A SEMINAR
ON
CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
Submitted by- Miss. Trupti A. Raut
Roll No.: 15 (M. pharmacy First Year)
[Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry]
Guided by : Poonam Lal
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GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, AMRAVATI

CONTENTS OF SLIDES
Sr. no. Contents Slide no.
1 Introduction 3
2 Development Of Strategy 4
3 Involvement of International Organization 5
4 Diversity Of Medicinal Plant 16
5 Guidelines On The Conservation of Medicinal
Plants by WHO
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6 Conservation Strategies 17
7 International Ayurvedic Medical Journal 27
8 Conclusion 28
9 Reference 29
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GCOP, AMRAVATI (PHARMACOGNOSY AND PHYTOCHEMISTRY)

INTRODUCTION
• What is important in the conservation of medicinal plants?
• Medicinal plants are valuable natural resources.
• Medicinal plants are valuable natural resources. In order
to meet the growing demand for these plants, it becomes
important to conserve these plant species either by way of
domestication and cultivation or by other ex-situ and in
situ conservation measures for their sustainable use.
TULSI
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DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES
• Developing a consensus on what needs to be done
• Assigning tasks to different institutions.
• Motivating participants to undertake the tasks.
• Monitoring progress.
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INVOLVEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
• WHO
• IUCN
• UNESCO
• FAO
• UNIDO
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
(WHO)
 The WHO organization states that overall objective of WHO
“is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of
health”.
 WHO has continued to expand its work on medicinal plant
utilization, through promotional activities and development of
specific guidelines .
 Mission :
Providing leadership on matters critical to health.
Shaping the research agenda
Setting norms and standards and promoting and monitoring
their implementation.
Providing technical support.
Monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.
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WHO
Formation : 1948
Headquarter : Geneva, Switzerland
Head : Michel Sidibe
Indian Representative : Dr. Nata
Menabde
Concerned with international public
health
Working in 155 countries

IUCN- INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR
CONSERVATION OF NATURE
 IUCN has continued to develop its policies for conservation of
medicinal plants, both in situ and ex situ.
 IUCN's Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas
(CNPPA) links together over 300 senior protected area
professionals from over 100 countries.
 It holds regular meetings, publishes a wide range of books and
papers on protected areas, and its staff and members provide
advice on request about protected area planning and
management.
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RED LISTED MEDICINAL PLANT BY IUCN
Botanical name : Aconitum Heterophyllum
Family : Ranunculaceae
Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Ranunculales
Genus : Aconitum
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RED LISTED MEDICINAL PLANT BY IUCN
Botanical name : Agallochum malaccense (Lam.) Kuntze
Family : Thymelaeaceae
Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Malvales
Genus : Aquilaria
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UNESCO- UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL,
SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
 UNESCO, for example, could contribute through its Man and
the Biosphere programme, especially through utilizing the
extensive network of biosphere reserves for conservation of
medicinal plants.
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FAO- FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION
• FAO has already been active on this issue and is one of the
three sponsors (with the International Society for Horticultural
Science – SIHS – and the Research Institute for Medicinal
Plants) of a Newsletter of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.
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UNIDO – UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
• The Organization’s primary objective is the promotion and
acceleration of industrial development in developing
countries and countries with economics in transition and
the promotion of international industrial cooperation.

UNIDO
 Works towards improving the quality of life of the world’s poor
by drawing on its combined global resources ad expertise in the
following three interrelated thematic areas:
1. Poverty reduction through productive activities.
2. Trade capacity – building; and
3. Energy and environment
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UNIDO
• Formation : 1966
• Headquarter : Vienna, Austria
• Head : Li Yong
• Working in 171 countries
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DIVERSITY OF MEDICINAL PLANT
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GUIDELINES ON THE CONSERVATION OF
MEDICINAL PLANTS
A. BASIC STUDIES
• To study traditional knowledge on the use of plants in
health care
• To identify the medicinal plants, outline their
distributions and assess their abundance.
B. UTILIZATION
• Wherever possible, to cultivate the medicinal plants as the
source of supply
• To improve techniques for harvesting, storage and production
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C. CONSERVATION
• -Identifying which of the protected areas are most important for
medicinal plants;
• -Targets and techniques for recording and monitoring
medicinal plants in protected areas;
• -Techniques and procedures for collection of medicinal plants
within protected areas;
• -A legal mechanism to ensure that benefits reach local people

CONSERVATION STRATEGIES
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IN - SITU
• Natural Reserves :
 Degradation and destruction of habitats is a major cause of the
loss of medicinal plant sources.
 To preserve restore biodiversity.
 More than 12,700 protected areas have been established.
 Ex : In Singapore include chek Jawa , Sengui Buloh , and
Bukit Timah
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• Wild Nurseries :
 It is impossible to designate every natural wild plant habitat
as protected area, owing to cost considerations and
competing land uses.
 Wild nurseries can provide an effective approach for in situ
conservation of medicinal plants that are endemic,
endangered, and in- demand.

EX SITU
 Botanic gardens
 Seed bank
 Ideally all medicinal plant species should be conserved as
evolving populations in nature. However, these species should
also be conserved ex situ (i.e. outside their habitat) as well.
 The primary purpose of this is as an insurance policy. But it
also has the advantage that it is usually easier to supply plant
material for propagation, for re-introduction, for agronomic
improvement, for research and for education purposes from ex
situ collections than from in situ reserves.
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• Botanic Gardens :
 Botanic gardens play an important role in ex situ
conservation, they can maintain the ecosystem to enhance
the survival of rare and endangered plant species.
 Botanical gardens can play a further role in medicinal
plant conservation through the development of
propagation and cultivation protocols.
India's most famous botanical gardens
• Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden,
Howrah. ...
• Government Botanical Gardens, Udhagamandalam. ...

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 Seed Banks :
Seed banks offer a better way of storing the genetic
diversity of many medicinal plants ex- situ than through
botanic gardens and are recommended to help preserve the
biological and genetic diversity of wild plant species.
The most noteworthy seed bank is the Millennium Seed
Bank Project at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Britain.
The challenging tasks of seed banking are how to re-
introduce the plant species back into the wild and how to
actively assist in the restoration of wild populations.

CULTIVATION PRACTICE
• GAP( Good Agriculture Practice)
• Cultivation provides the opportunity to use new techniques to
solve problems encountered in the production of medicinal
plants, such as toxic components, pesticide contamination, low
content of active ingredient & misidentification of botanical
origin.
• To improve the yields of active compounds.
• To provide optimal levels of water, nutrients, optional
additives.
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INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDIC MEDICAL
JOURNAL
Abstract
Ayurveda [traditional medicine of India as per WHO], the
holistic science of medicine, as practised and utilized by
Indians at large since centuries is now being globally
accepted which has increased the demand for medicinal
plants. Majority of population in the developing countries
like India depends on the traditional systems of medicine
like Ayurveda for their primary healthcare needs.

CONCLUSION
• Medicinal plants are inseparable from local
livelihoods because they have long been collected,
consumed, and managed through local customs and
knowledge.
• Overexploitation, habitat degradation and unsustainable
harvesting practices poses urgent need for alternative
strategies for whole AYUSH industry.
• Various conservation techniques discussed above can
initiate and support conservation management and
sustainable wage of medicinal plants for human
healthcare needs.
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REFERENCE
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Pharmacognosy-I”, Etal by PV Publication Latest Edition
2021 ; pg. No.-56,59,60,72,82
2) Research Gate, “GUIDELINES ON THE
CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS”,
Published by ‘THE INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR
CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL
RESOURCES (IUCN) GLAND, SWITZERLAND , 1993 ,
pg. no. 10-29
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3) Uwe Schippmunn, (Medicinal plant conservation and
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5) Santosh T. Kadam1, Ashalata D. Pawar,
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