DECLARATION

YEAR

ISSUING BODY

LOCATION

Chiang Mai

1988

WHO/IUCN/WWF International Consultation on Conservation of Medicinal Plants

• reaffirms commitment to collective WHO goal of "Health for All by the Year 2000"
• recognises that medicinal plants are essential in primary health care, in self-medication, and in national health services
• concerned with loss of (medicinal) plant diversity world-wide
• focuses attention on the economic value of medicinal plants and their sourcing research into development of new drugs.

 Chiang Mai, Thailand

Kari-Oca

1992

Kari-Oca Conference on Indigenous Peoples at UNCED focused on:

• The need to inventorize, conserve, and bequeath to future generations the existing traditional knowledge of herbs and medicinal plants
• Invest indigenous communities with their intellectual and cultural property rights.
• Provide rural and non-industrialised communities with easy access to gene banks housing medicinal plant resources through appropriate training programmes.

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil