The Reason For Ethnobotanical Conservation

摘要

In the few parts of the world still not affected by fast encroaching civilization, there exists a wealth of information on the properties of plants that is still available to us. It will not long be there for us to salvage. It has been built up by peoples in primitive societies over millennia by trial and error, for they have had to rely on their ambient vegetation for foods, medicines and all the other necessities of life.