ABC Launches Conservation, Sustainability, and Regeneration Webpage and Newsletter

The American Botanical Council (ABC) launched a new webpage and corresponding newsletter on Botanical Conservation, Sustainability, and Regeneration (CSR) featuring curated summaries and original commentary on the preservation of botanicals.

The Botanical CSR webpage currently features resources including:

• Articles, videos, and other features on botanical conservation and sustainability from ABC’s journal, HerbalGram, including a cover story on goldenseal, the late Steven Foster’s cover story on lady’s slipper, “The Effects of Climate Change on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs),” and many more;
• An annotated directory of more than 30 U.S. and global nonprofit and intergovernmental organizations that work in the CSR space;
• Curated summaries of recent articles on conservation, sustainability, and regenerative farming practices related to MAPs.

The corresponding newsletter, the Botanical Environmental Education Resources Report (BEERR) will deliver selected summaries and links to recent publications to ABC members. It will be compiled by Josef Brinckmann, an expert on conservation and sustainability issues related to MAPs. Brinckmann is currently president of ABC’s board of trustees.

“There is an increasing number of articles published in journals of the environmental and social sciences, as well as in sustainable development project reports coming from nature conservation organizations, that provide timely insights for the MAP sector,” said Brinckmann. “Through the BEERR newsletter, ABC will contribute to building greater awareness by extending the reach of important information on the state of the herbs we rely on from around the world.”

“This new educational project is part of ABC and HerbalGram’s 40-plus years of commitment to conservation and sustainable development of MAPs. Since some of the very earliest issues of our journal HerbalGram, back when it was still a newsletter in the late 1980s, we have informed members of the herb industry and the extended medicinal plant community about the need to research and employ sustainable practices for the conservation of wild medicinal plants of commercial importance.”