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The document sets out strategic objectives across basic studies, utilization and sustainable harvesting, in-situ and ex-situ conservation, and communication and cooperation to build public support. It also frames an international consultation and outlines recommendations for action.","Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants  \nThe World Health Organization (WHO) IUCN-The World Conservation Union WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature  \nISBN 2-8317-0136-8  \nPublished by The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, in partnership with The World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, and WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland, 1993.  \n© WHO, IUCN & WWF. All requests for reproduction should be made to the Publications Officer, IUCN, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland.  \nWith the support ofAkell Minott Elia, London, Creative Technology Associates, Hornblotton, UK  \nLP and TS, Somerton, UK  \nCastel Cary Press, Somerset, UK  \nCover photograph  \n© The Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew  \nPrinted on recycled paper  \n© 1986 WWF symbol copyright  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction  \nObjectives  \nDeveloping a Strategy  \nThe Role of International Organizations  \nA.  Basic Studies   \n1. To study traditional knowledge on the use of plants in health care.  \n2. To identify the medicinal plants, outline their distributions and assess their abundance.  \nB. Utilization   \n3. Wherever possible, to cultivate the medicinal plants as the source of supply.  \n4. To ensure that any collecting from the wild is sustainable.  \n5. To improve techniques for harvesting, storage and production.  \nC.  Conservation   \n6. To conserve populations of medicinal plant species in natural habitats.  \n7. To conserve populations of medicinal plant species ex situ.  \nD.  Communication and Cooperation   \n8. To build public support for the conservation of medicinal plants through communication and cooperation.  \nAnnex 1: The Chiang Mai Declaration  \nAnnex 2: List of participants at the WHO/IUCN/WWF International Consultation on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants (Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1988)  \nIntroduction  \nAll cultures from ancient times to the present day have used plants as a source of medicines. Today, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as many as 80% of the world's people depend on traditional medicine for their primary health care needs. The greater part of traditional therapy involves the use of plant extracts or their active principles.  \nThe preliminary results of a study on behalf of WHO has shown that the number of individuals using medicinal plants is large and on the increase, even among young people.1 It is not just in developing countries that medicinal plants are important. In the USA, for example, 25% of all prescriptions from community pharmacies between 1959 and 1980 contained materials from higher plants.2  \nOver the last decade or so, the World Health Assembly has passed a number of resolutions in response to a resurgence of interest in the study and use of traditional medicine in health care, and in recognition of the importance of medicinal plants to the health systems of many developing countries. In answer to WHO's call, health authorities and administrators in developing countries have decided to take traditional forms of medicine more seriously and to explore the possibility of utilizing them in primary health care.  \nThis great surge of public interest in the use of plants as medicines has been based on the assumption that the plants will be available on a continuing basis. However, no concerted effort has been made to ensure this, in the face of the threats posed by increasing demand, a vastly increasing human population and extensive destruction of plant-rich habitats such as the tropical forests, wetlands, Mediterranean ecosystems and parts ofthe arid zone.  \nToday many medicinal plants face extinction or severe genetic loss, but detailed information is lacking. For most of the endangered medicinal plant species no conservation action has been taken. For example, there is very little material of them in genebanks. 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