TITLE:
Use of Medicinal Plant and Its Vulnerability Due to Climate Change in Northern Part of Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Sadhan Kumar Roy, Dipak Kumar Roy
KEYWORDS:
Climate Change, Drought, Medicinal Plants, Conservation
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Plant Sciences,
Vol.7 No.13,
September
16,
2016
ABSTRACT: Medicinal plants are playing an important role to
human livelihood. Bangladesh is well recognized of medicinal plants wealth as
unique and globally rich. The studies demonstrate about the value of
traditional systems of medicine as economically useful plants and possible
effects of climate change on medicinal plants. It is true that climate change
is causing noticeable effects on life cycles and distribution of the plant
species. However, climate change effects on medicinal plants are widely unclear
in Bangladesh. At present, a huge
number of populations in Bangladesh are directly dependent on the healthcare treatment by medicinal plants that is why it
is an emerging concern in Bangladesh. It is a crying need to improve our
understanding the effects on medicinal plants by various researches is stressed
in the present article. To know the present condition of medicinal plants and
effects of climate change on medicinal plants in northern part of Bangladesh an
attempt is being taken here. The study also
added the optimum use of medicinal plants and their conservation in northern part of Bangladesh.