Newsletter of the Medicinal Plant Specialist Group of the Iucn Species Survival Commission

ISSN 1430-95X 1 August 2004 Revision of the “WHO/IUCN/WWF Guidelines on the Conservation of Medicinal Plants” – Wolfgang Kathe & Alan Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 WHO releases Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices (GACP) for medicinal plants – Alan Pierce & Wolfgang Kathe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Seminar on MAPs and protected areas in SE Europe Sustainable use of medicinal and aromatic plants for financial support of protected areas in Southeast Europe – Wolfgang Kathe & Susanne Honnef. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The importance of ethno-botanical survey and medicinal plant collection monitoring for biodiversity conservation in Piatra Craiului National Park (Romania) – Oliviu Pop . . 62 GTZ project “Agricultural Sector Support in Bosnia and Herzegovina” – Dragana Pecanac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 CAMP Workshops Summary report: Red List training/CAMP workshops in Central America – Danna J. Leaman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Conservation assessment and management prioritisation for wild medicinal plants of Maharashtra – D. K. Ved, G. Utkarsh & Anagha Ranade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Reviews and Notices of Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 List of MPSG Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Chair’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation What can it mean for medicinal plants? – Danna J. Leaman . . . . . . . . . .5 Sustainable wild collection of medicinal and aromatic plants: Practice standards and performance criteria – Danna J. Leaman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Regional File Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in Bulgaria – Liuba Evstatieva & Rayna Hardalova . . . . . . . . 24 Management priorities amongst the harvested medicinal plants of Myohyang Mountains Protected Area, DPR Korea – Tom Evans, Ro Jong Sam & William Duckworth . 28 The German foreign trade in medicinal and aromatic plants during the 1990s – Dagmar Lange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Taxon File Candelilla (Euphorbia antisyphilitica): Utilisation in Mexico and international trade – Frank Barsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Conferences and Meetings Coming up – Natalie Hofbauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CITES CoP 13 – Uwe Schippmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Reports from Meetings Sustained use and conservation of wild plants: building on traditional knowledge at the local people and protected area interface – Nan C. Vance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Focus on Latin America