PCA-Medicinal Plant Working Group 2005 Symposium

Sustainable Botanicals 2005
Healthy business, Healthy planet, Healthy people

Winter 2005 - Salt Lake City, Utah

SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW

• Explore how industry can deliver the highest quality products at competitive prices to customers while ensuring the continuation of the resource, protecting the natural environment where the plants grow, and respecting the rights, economic viability, cultures, and traditions of those who tend the plants.
• Learn about the cutting edge issues that impact this goal and actual working models that are achieving sustainability. Network with industry experts to understand sustainability opportunities and constraints at each step of the supply chain - from growing and harvesting plants to marketing finished products to end consumers.
• Leave the symposium with concrete ways you can help improve your company’s sustainability performance.

The Sustainable Botanicals Symposium aims to chart a path toward the sustainable use and conservation of medicinal plants by providing a forum for all links in the botanicals supply chain to identify and address barriers to sustainability.

Sustainable Botanicals 2005 is organized by members of the Plant Conservation Alliance-Medicinal Plant Working Group (PCA-MPWG) MPWG was formed in 1999 by representatives from government, industry, academia, tribes and environmental organization to focus on medicinal plant conservation issues. With more than 300 members, the MPWG is the largest of four working groups under the Plant Conservation Alliance (PCA). PCA is a consortium of 10 federal agencies and over 225 non-federal cooperators representing various disciplines within the conservation field. PCA provides a forum for collective focus on native plant conservation and restoration issues. The PCA also serves as the IUCN (World Conservation Union)-North American Plant Specialist Group. For more information, visit http://www.nps.gov/plants.