The Threat of Endangerment and Extinction to the Medicinal Ethanobotany of the Koshi Region and the Suggested Approach to Counter it

The study shows that herbal medicine has great prospect in health care worldwide. It is reported that 25% of prescribed drug for conventional healthcare were derived from ethno medicine. But in present medicinal plants facing threats due to depletion of natural resources as an impact of growing population size, urbanization and climate change. The major challenges on traditional medicine and medicinal plant is lack of data on seriously threatened and endangered medicinal plant species. The other challenges include inadequate and conflicting guidelines on management and utilization of medicinal plant or natural resources. So effort for conservation of medicinal plants has been suggested. The ex-situ and in-situ conservation of medicinal plants in Bihar is a great step towards the conservation of medicinal plants as well as other species. The conservation in all the agro- climatic zones would be a long way for conservation of biodiversity. These include creation of awareness of medicinal plants in healthcare by training programmes at local community level. It is essential to conserve medicinal plant through sustainable harvesting of medicinal plant resources.