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Recommended Links to the World of Herbs
Biodiversity/Conservation Links
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Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas - www.attra.org
ATTRA - Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas - is the national
sustainable farming information center operated by the private nonprofit
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). ATTRA provides technical
assistance to farmers, Extension agents, market gardeners, agricultural
researchers, and other agricultural professionals in all 50 states.
Association for Biodiversity Information - www.natureserve.org
The Association for Biodiversity Information (ABI) is a non-profit
organization dedicated to developing and providing knowledge about the
world's natural diversity. Working with our member programs in the United
States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean—known as the Natural
Heritage Network—ABI collects and develops authoritative data about
the plants, animals, and ecological communities of the Western Hemisphere.
Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - www.bioresources.org
BDCP utilizes its independent and non-governmental status to bring
innovative management and technical support to grass-roots sustainable
development projects. It serves as an intermediary institution forging
equitable partnerships between tropical countries and often inaccessible
developmental agencies.
The Biotrade Initiative Website - www.biotrade.org
The BIOTRADE Initiative seeks to enhance the capability of developing
countries to produce value-added products and services from biodiversity
for both domestic and international markets. It is an integrated programme
consisting of three complementary components: the BIOTRADE country programmes;
market research and policy analysis; and Internet services.
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation - http://research.amnh.org/biodiversity/index.html
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC), established at
the American Museum of Natural History in 1993, is a facility dedicated
to the study and conservation of biological diversity, defined as the
variety of life in all its forms and the interactions among these living
forms and their environment.
Community Alliance with Family Farmers - www.caff.org
Founded in 1978, the Community Alliance with Family Farmers is a nonprofit
member-activist organization. CAFF political and educational campaigns
are building a movement of rural and urban people who foster family-scale
agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies, and promotes
social justice. Members are urbanites, farmers, environmentalists, rural
activists, students, and anyone concerned with the social and environmental
dimensions of agriculture.
Conservation International - www.conservation.org
CI's mission: To conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, our
global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able
to live harmoniously with nature.
Convention on Biological Diversity - www.biodiv.org
Dedicated to conservation, sustainable use and equitable benefit sharing.
Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions
- www.frlht-india.org
FRLHT, a non governmental organisation which was established in 1991,
is dedicated to the cause of revitalisation of India's rich and diverse
health traditions. We have taken upon us an ambitious mission , which
includes:
Strengthening Local Health Traditions in rural communities.
Conservation and sustainable utilization of Medicinal Plants including
promotion of small scale medicinal plant enterprises for generation
of income & employment for rural communities.
Dissemination of medicinal plants related knowledge drawn from traditional
and modern knowledge systems and including market information
Research on selected medical, sociological and epistemological aspects
of Indian Medicinal Heritage.
GIFTS of Health - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~gree0179/
Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health - GIFTS of Health
is a focal point for policy, research and public awareness of the health
needs of the majority of the world's population, who rely on indigenous
or traditional medicine for their health and well-being. GIFTS is contributing
to the creation of international awareness and policy momentum surrounding
the role of traditional health systems - and in the related areas of
biodiversity conservation and economic development.
Global BioDiversity Insitiute - www.gbdi.org
The vision of Global BioDiversity Institute (GBDI) is " to be
an international leader in providing necessary training and information
for capacity building for scientists, legal establishments, local communities,
national leaders and government officials in developing countries.
Green Medicine - www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal
Recognizing that commercial demand may lead to overharvesting of native
plants in the United States, representatives from industry, government,
academia, tribes, and environmental organizations joined together in
1999 to form the Medicinal Plant Working Group. The Medicinal Plant
Working Group is part of the Plant Conservation Alliance, a consortium
of ten US federal agencies and more than 145 non-federal cooperators
working collectively on issues associated with native plant extinction
and native habitat restoration. The Alliance also serves as the North
American Plant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.
Greenpeace - www.greenpeace.org
Greenpeace is the world's leading campaigning organisation for the
environment.
Greenpeace works to stop climate change, save the ancient forests,
and protect our world's oceans, earth, and sky.
IUCN - The World Conservation Union - www.iucn.org
Mission: To influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the
world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure
that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
MEDPLANTS-- global network on medicinal plants - www.bellanet.org/medplants/
MEDPLANTS is a global network whose members are committed to the sustainable
and socially equitable use of medicinal plants.
The network and its members will achieve this through:
Sharing information as widely as possible to achieve the collaborative
generation and exchange of knowledge;
Strengthening regional and local networks and their initiatives and
strengthening the networking capacities of its members;
Bringing the benefits of medicinal plants to support local health systems
and livelihoods;
Addressing global health concerns
Conserving medicinal plants and their habitats;
Working together to build an active, participatory and transparent network
that respects the autonomy of its members.
National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs - www.ncpmh.org
Nestled on 68 acres of rolling land near Rutland in Meigs County, Ohio,
the National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs is a not-for-profit
research facility and preserve. Advised by a council of manufacturers,
retailers, herbalists, environmentalists, media, growers and researchers,
it cultivates and studies medicinal herbs that are at risk of extinction.
Frontier Natural Products Co-op founded the center in 1998, and transferred
the management of the center to Rural Action in 2000.
National Council for Science and the Environment - www.cnie.org
The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) works to
improve the scientific basis for environmental decision making. Guided
by the needs of stakeholders, NCSE educates society about the importance
of comprehensive scientific programs that integrate cross-cutting research
with knowledge assessments, education, information dissemination, and
training.
Neartica Native Plant Societies Resource Page - www.nearctica.com/organize/conserve/natplant.htm
The Nature Conservancy - www.nature.org
The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization founded in 1951, is
the world's largest private international conservation group. Working
with communities, businesses and people like you, we protect millions
of acres of valuable lands and waters worldwide.
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals
and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth
by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
Plants For A Future - http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/index.html
A resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which
have edible, medicinal or other uses.
Online Directory for Medicinal Plants Conservation -
http://www.genres.de/genres-e.htm
This directory is intended to assist in the flow of information between
policy makers, scientists and technical experts in the management of
medicinal plant resources.
In its main section, entries are provided on international organizations,
organizations with activities on more than one continent, and organizations
with a more specific interest in countries of Africa, America, Asia,
Australia and the Pacific Islands, and Europe.
People and Plants Online -
http://griffin.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/index.html
People and Plants is an initiative in applied ethnobotany, focusing
on the interface between people and the world of plants. It promotes
sustainable use of plant resources, and the reconciliation of conservation
and development. People and Plants is a partnership of WWF and UNESCO.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is an Associate, supporting this and
other information services of the programme.
Plant Conservation Alliance Website - www.nps.gov/plants
The PCA is a consortium of ten federal government Member agencies and
over 145 non-federal Cooperators representing various disciplines within
the conservation field: biologists, botanists, habitat preservationists,
horticulturists, resources management consultants, soil scientists,
special interest clubs, non-profit organizations, concerned citizens,
nature lovers, and gardeners. PCA Members and Cooperators work collectively
to solve the problems of native plant extinction and native habitat
restoration, ensuring the preservation of our ecosystem. People and
Plants is a partnership of WWF and UNESCO. The Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew is an Associate, supporting this and other information services
of the programme.
Seacology Foundation - www.seacology.org
Seacology is the world's premier nonprofit, nongovernmental organization
whose sole and unique purpose is to preserve the environments and cultures
of islands throughout the globe. From Aitutaki in the South Pacific
to Zanzibar off the coast of Africa, from islands in the Arctic Circle
to tropical islands of the Caribbean, from the Maldives to Micronesia
and from Polynesia to the Pribilofs, Seacology launches projects to
help preserve island ecosystems and cultures.
TRAFFIC - www.traffic.org
TRAFFIC is the joint wildlife trade monitoring programme of WWF-World
Wide Fund For Nature and IUCN-The World Conservation Union. The TRAFFIC
Network works in co-operation with the Secretariat of the Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES). It also collaborates with a wide range of other partners, including
the IUCN Species Survival Commission, many governments and other organisations.
TRAFFIC is an international network, with culturally diverse staff on
five continents in 22 countries and territories, and ongoing research
in dozens of others. TRAFFIC recognises the diversity of cultural perspectives
related to consumptive use of wildlife.
United Plant Savers - www.plantsavers.org
United Plant Savers is a grassroots membership organization whose mission
is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada
and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply
of medicinal plants for generations to come.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre - www.wcmc.org.uk
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information services
on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources,
and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
Their programs concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine
and freshwaters; plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar
regions. They also address the relationship between trade and the environment
and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment.
World Wildlife Fund - www.panda.org
WWF's goal is to stop, and eventually reverse, the worsening degradation
of the planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans
live in harmony with nature. WWF is working to achieve this goal through:
Preserving genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity
Ensuring that the use of natural resources is sustainable both now and
in the longer term, for the benefit of all life on Earth
Promoting action to reduce pollution and wasteful consumption to a minimum.
Since it was founded in 1961, WWF has become one of the world's largest
and most effective independent organizations dedicated to the conservation
of nature. It has reached this status through a constant record of conservation
achievements.
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