Bio-diversity

The project aims at identification of medicinal plants and their ethnobotanical use and promoting wise use of medicinal plants and their propagation on farmlands. The project is designed to develop a programme, that will involve the local community in the conservation of biodiversity, e.g. local HMAPs, by preparing a project, that offers sustainable resource mobilization for income generating purposes and self-utilization of HMAPs. It will mainly include the Identification of indigenous Herbs, Medical & Aromatic Plants availability & capacity for sustainable wild growth & on-farm reproduction, local knowledge about them and their utility for human consumption/application, processing and marketing, and initial analysis for beneficial and potentially harmful substances. The flora of the area has been already identified by earlier studies and IUCN is presently active in a biodiversity project for the Northern Areas. The project s effort will be, to compile the published information, collect local indigenous knowledge about HMAPs, particularly local utilization, collect expert & local knowledge about a sustainable level for the harvesting of wild & on-farm production of HMAPs and get lab. analysis information about potentially beneficial & harmful ingredients of these HMAPs.

Pakistan