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Medicinal Plant Conservation 6 2 and Fundraising for the MPSG's Global and Regional Headquarters, Rome, Italy, 5-7 May 1999 Medicinal Plant MEDICINAL PLANT SPECIALIST Conservation GROUP Silphion Volume 6 Newsletter of the Medicinal Plant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Chaired by Uwe Schippmann Focus on Harpagophytum Conservation data sheet 2: Exploitation, trade and population status of Harpagophytum procumbensin southern Africa - B. Hachfeld & U. Schippmann ...................................................4 The Sustainably Harvested Devil's Claw Project in Namibia - C. Lombard...9 In-vitromicropropagation of fertile plants of Harpagophytum procumbens andH. zeyheri (Devil's Claw) - G. Levieille, G. Wilson, J.R. Robin & M. Cambornac ..................................................10 Chair’s Note..................................2 Erratum Prunus africana - J. Acworth .............20 MPSG News - D. Leaman The exploitation of Pausinystalia johimbe - T. Sunderland, Z. Tchoundjeu & Peter Scott Award presented to Tony Cunningham .....2 M.-L. Ngo-Mpeck ...........................21 New programme office at CMN ....................2 Griffonia simplicifolia, calling for information You are the "voice" of MPSG ......................3 on a west African medicinal plant in trade - A. B. Cunningham & U. Schippmann ..........23 Regional File Croton lechleri, sustainable utilization of an The Plant Conservation Alliance - Medicinal Plant Amazonian pioneer species - J. Roberto Borges Working Group -J.Lyke......................11 & S. R. King ...............................24 National Herbalists Association of Australia establishes Preservation ofArnica montana L. committee for medicinal plant sustainability and - M. Cambornac.............................26 ethical issues - A. Pengelly ....................12 Sustainable supply of wildcrafted medicinal plant drugs: Conferences and Meetings Steps towards a balance between economy and conservation - G. Harnischfeger ................13 Coming Up - N. Hofbauer.......................27 Tibetan medicine and the environment in modern Workshop on Medicinal Plants and Local Ladakh. A threat to medicinal plants - L. Pordié....14 Communities (Mamou, Guinea, 30 March - 2 April 1999) - C. Schäfer & R. Kutsch Lojenga ..29 Taxon File Workshop on Conservation of Medicinal Plants CITES-News - U. Schippmann ...................17 - S. Lee & S. Kang ..........................30 The exploitation ofPrunus africana on the island of Reviews and Notices of Publication ...........31 Bioko, Equatorial Guinea - T. Sunderland & T.C. Tanyi ................................18 List of Members ............................41 ISSN 1430-953X 1 June 2000 conservation. The 1999 Award was presented to Dr. Chair’s Note A.B. (Tony) Cunningham for his outstanding contributions not only to the MPSG and SSC, but Just in time before the second World Conservation also in broader recognition of Tony's important and Congress of IUCN, which will be held 4-11 October influential work on plant resource conservation, 2000 in Amman, Jordan, we have finalized the sixth particularly in Africa. This 1999 Peter Scott Award th issue of our newsletter. And another venue just came marks the 50 anniversary of the IUCN, the SSC, to an end, the 11th Conference of the Parties to and of the award itself. The award was presented by th CITES (10-20 April, Nairobi, Kenya), which Dr. David Brackett, Chair of the SSC, at an SSC 50 discussed a number of medicinal plant issues. We Anniversary reception held during the International want to thank those of our members who have Botanical Congress in St. Louis, USA, last August. contributed to the process of assessing the proposals In his remarks, Dr. Brackett recognized Tony's long relating to medicinal plants. commitment to training young professionals and involving local communities in scientific research that After six years of co-chairing (together with Tony is more useful to conservation, currently as Cunningha m) and later chairing the Medicinal Plant Coordinator of the Africa component of the Specialist Group I have taken the decision to step WWF/UNESCO/Kew People and Plants Initiative, as down as chair. The main reason is the increasing well as his contribution to the MPSG and SSC, workload I am experiencing as Head of the German initially as the MPSG's founding co-chair. Tony CITES Scientific Authority for plants which does not remains one of the group's most active members. Dr. give me enough room in the future to sufficiently take Brackett emphasized an often forgotten element of care of the group's needs. I will of course remain leadership: "Tony has, day after day, with unfailing active as a member and contribute as much as I can generosity, responded to letters, provided advice on to medicinal plant conservation activities. Out of the research projects, recommended literature, and helped many members which I had the pleasure to work make the many connections between people that make with, I want to specially thank the following four the work of conservation both rewarding and colleagues who have become friends over the past possible." years: Danna Leaman, our Executive Officer, Tony Cunningham, my former co-chair, Wendy Stra hm, Speaking more generally of the work of the MPSG SSC's Plants Officer, and Nina Marshall from and SSC, Dr. Brackett identified the MPSG as one of TRAFFIC East-Southern Africa. I trust that SSC will SSC’s most active groups, and acknowledged the take a good decision in selecting a new chair for the leadership and commitment of Specialist Group group. We will let you know about this as soon as chairs, and the challenge to all SSC members of possible. balancing the demands of volunteer work with paying jobs. My sincere thanks also go to Natalie Hofbauer, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, for editing this issue of our newsletter. New programme office at CMN Uwe Schippmann, 1 June 2000 The MPSG has a new programme office, hosted by the Canadian Museum of Nature. In September 1999, a Memorandum of Agreement was signed between the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada, MPSG News and the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN- the World Conservation Union. This agreement creates an institutional base for the MPSG within the Museum's Canadian Centre for Biodiversity. The Danna Leaman Canadian Museum of Nature is a Crown Corporation Peter Scott Award presented to Tony of the Government of Canada, and also hosts the Cunningham Canadian Committee for the IUCN. The MPSG programme office is located in the Natural Heritage The Peter Scott Award for Conservation Merit is Building of the Canadian Museum of Nature in presented annually by the IUCN Species Survival Aylmer, Quebec. This agreement will facilitate Commission to recognize significant achievements in programme development, institutional collaboration, Medicinal Plant Conservation 6 2 and fundraising for the MPSG's global and regional Headquarters, Rome, Italy, 5-7 May 1999. This activities related to identification and conservation of meeting was co-sponsored by FAO, UNESCO, threatened medicinal plants. The MPSG programme UNEP/CBD Secretariat, IPGRI and DIVERSITAS. will be self-supporting, but will link with the CMN's A travel grant from TRAFFIC International Issues in Biodiversity Project. Establishment of an supported MPSG's participation in this meeting. The MPSG website and development of a fundraising objectives of the meeting were to begin an inventory strategy are being coordinated from this office by the of activities in this area, and to identify action gaps, MPSG's Executive Secretary, Danna Leaman. The primarily as a contribution to the implementation of coordinates of the new programme office are as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the follows: Global Plan of Action on the conservation and utilization of genetic plant resources. Further Dr Danna J. Leaman • Executive Secretary • Medici- information about follow-up to this meeting is nal Plant Specialist Group of the IUCN-SSC • Cana- available from the DIVERSITAS Secretariat (E-mail: dian Museum of Nature • P.O. Box 3443 • Station D [email protected] or Tel.: +33/1/4568- 4093 or • Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4 • Canada • Tel: +1/613/ -4054, Fax: +33/1/4568-5832). 364-4140 • Fax: +1/613/364-4022 • E-mail: dleaman SSC Plant Conservation Subcommittee (PCS): @mus-nature.ca. This advisory group, appointed by the Chair of SSC, held its annual meeting from 8-11 August 1999 at the You are the "voice" of MPSG Jerry J. Presley Conservation Education Center in the Ozarks region of Missouri. I attended this meeting as In the following items, I describe several recent an observer on behalf of the MPSG. The group events at which I have had an opportunity to discussed implementation of the new SSC Plants represent the MPSG. I encourage all MPSG members Programme (Conservation for 2000 – Conserving the to "wear your MPSG hat" when you participate in Centers of Plant Diversity in the New Millennium). meetings and other events relevant to medicinal plant Information about this programme as it develops will conservation – this is how we have our broadest voice be posted on the group's new website: http://www. and impact. And please tell us about these events so cjb.unige.ch/BVAUICN/Bplants.htm (viewed we can report them in this column in future issues of 10.3.2000). MPC. MPSG's advisory role and its value – a call for MPSG members meet: A small group of MPSG information: Providing advice to the IUCN and to members who attended the International Botanical other organizations and agencies on medicinal plant Congress in St. Louis, Missouri, last August, took conservation
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