LibGuides: Natural and Complementary Medicine: Conservation and botany

Essential reading

Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine : policy and public health perspectives by Bodeker, Gerard & Burford, Gemma
Call Number: 362.1 TRAD
ISBN: 9781860946165
The lost language of plants : the ecological importance of plant medicines to life on earth by Buhner, SH
Call Number: 615.32 BUHN
ISBN: 1890132888
Biopiracy by Vandana Shiva
Call Number: KC 236.2 SHIV 2016
ISBN: 9781623170707
Publication Date: 2016

Botany

Australian National Botanic Garden and the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
This site has specific focus on education, horticulture, collection management, biodiversity, herbarium, databases and images
Australian Plant Image Index
The Australian National Botanic Gardens, jointly with the Australian National Herbarium, manages a large collection of photographs and other illustrations of its activities and Australian botany. The bulk of the collection consists of identified Australian plant species, but there is also a large number of environmental and conservation images.
Botanicus
Botanicus is a freely accessible, web-based encyclopedia of digitized historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Author, title, date and subject browsing options are available.

Conservation

Bioneers
Bioneers is founded upon three principal streams of work: biological and cultural diversity; biomimicry and natural medicine
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
BGCI is an international organisation that exists to ensure the world-wide conservation of threatened plants, the continued existence of which are intrinsically linked to global issues including poverty, human well-being and climate change.
CITES - The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
CITES is an international agreement between Governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. Today, it accords varying degrees of protection to more than 30,000 species of animals and plants. It originated with IUCN.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
At the core of IUCN’s work is the conservation of biodiversity. IUCN have identified four challenges to this process: climate change, energy, livelihoods and economics.
Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species
United Nations Environment Program
UNEP lists six priorities in their focus on the environment: climate change; disasters and conflicts; ecosystem management; environmental governance; harmful substances and resource efficiency.
United Plant Savers
UPS is committed to the protection of native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come. UPS also publishes a list of wild medicinal plants which are at risk because of the impact of human activities

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Protecting health from climate change : global research priorities by WHO
Weather and climate affect the key determinants of human health: air, food and water. They also influence the frequency of heatwaves, floods and storms as well as the transmission of infectious diseases. In addition, policies to mitigate climate change (for example in the energy, transport or urban planning sectors) have a direct and important influence on health, for example through effects on local air pollution, physical activity, or road traffic injuries.