Title:
Medicinal Plants and Traditional African Medicine
Proposed by: Gerard Bailly
Seconded by:
Ben-Erik
van Wyk
WHEREAS,
80% African population uses medicinal plants;
80% African population has no access to validated "modern" medicine;
Medicinal plants represent important economic and social development
opportunities; and
Medicinal plants fit into socio-economic, cultural, African mind and
address some aspects of unmet public health needs eg AIDS, cancer
THEREFORE,
the 7th World Wilderness Congress hereby
RESOLVES, that
All governments - national, regional and local -- can assist the
health, economic vitality, and social upliftment of their citizens by
protecting and promoting the value of medicinal plants as a vital part of
their natural biodiversity, creating sustainable means of medicinal plant
production and processing, and assuring low-cost availability to
especially the economically disadvantaged.
Proposed by:
Gerard Bailly
24 - 25 Rue Louis Gaillet,
94250 Gentilly France
+33 6 233643
Seconded by:
Ben-Erik van Wyk
Dept.of Botany
Rand Afrikaans University
P.O. Box 524,
Auckland Park 2006 Johannesburg South Africa
Tel +27 11 4892412
