Sustainable wildcrafting in Nepal.In Nepal, approximately 15,000 tons of medicinal plants medicinal plants, plants used as natural medicines. This practice has existed since prehistoric times. There are three ways in which plants have been found useful in medicine. are collected for export each year by villagers who often receive less than a living wage for their work and are encouraged by unscrupulous buyers to strip plant supplies. A coalition of Nepalese and U.S. product buyers, advocacy groups, and donors was set up in 2002 to promote sustainable collection among villagers and responsible buying among western purchasers, with certification as one incentive. These efforts are paying off: in January 2005 the Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal, received certification from the Rainforest Alliance The Rainforest Alliance is a non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1987. In is based in New York, United States. Their stated mission is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices, business practices and for its handmade paper  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and herbal herbal, early botanical book containing descriptions and illustrations of herbs and plants with their properties, chiefly those qualities that made them useful as medicines or condiments. Most of the herbals were written between c.1470 and c. products. The federation's members manage community forests by sustainable principles and supply wildcrafted ingredients to the international herbal, medicinal, and natural products industries. |
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