Conservation and sustainable use group

There are a lot of direct and indirect signs of reduction in the spectrum of useful plant communities including species utilized for medicinal and aromatic purposes. This reduction can lead to the loss forever of valuable chemotaxa that could be used in the production of important drugs. Inventory and mapping should be done for all medicinal and aromatic plant species. Conservation should be focusing on medicinal and aromatic plant species using both ex situ and in situ approaches. Exploitation and preservation of these resources would require effective coordination at international, governmental and institutional levels .The conservation group should follow the following objectives :
• Assessment the distribution and the presence of medicinal plant species in the region
• Identify species that are in high demand by human and livestock in region
• Identify possible endemic medicinal plant species, including their habitat characteristics
• Assessment of the ethno-pharmacological value of the identified species.