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Medicinal Plant Specialist Group

IUCN Species Survival Commission

MPSG Structure and Members

Membership in the Medicinal Plant Specialist Group is by invitation of the Chair on behalf of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the IUCN - the World Conservation Union. Members are invited based on their active involvement in and contributions to medicinal plant conservation and sustainable use, and capacity to contribute to the regional and global programmes of the MPSG. We have established a regional sub-group for South Asia, and are currently organizing sub-groups in other regions.

Present MPSG Committee

Chair

Dr Danna J. Leaman, Chair of MPSG

98 Russell Avenue

Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7X1

Canada

Tel ++1/613 235-7213

Fax ++1/613/235-9622

E-mail: DJL@green-world.org

Steering committee and regional vice-chairs

Dr Uwe Schippmann - CITES, Newsletter, Publications

Dr. Anthony B. Cunningham- Research

Vinay Tandon - South Asia / Himalayas

Dr Sonia Lagos-Witte - South America / Caribbean

Dr. Reza Azmi - Website

Members

South America and the Caribbean

Ximena Buitron Cisneros, Ecuador

Robert A. Bye, Mexico

Elaine Elisabetsky, Brazil

Paul Hersch Martinez, Mexico

Sonia Lagos-Witte, Dominican Republic

Edelmira Linares Mazari, Mexico

Rafael Ocampo Sanchez, Costa Rica

South Asia

Sudhakar Agarwal, India

Nirmal Kumar Bhattarai, Nepal

Madhav Karki, India

Samar B. Malla, Nepal

Narayan Prasad Manandhar, Nepal

V.P.K. Nambiar, India

Ajay Rastogi, India

Gopal Singh Rawat, India

Y.K. Sarin, India

Niranjan Chandra Shah, India

Bhishma P. Subedi, Nepal

Vinay Tandon, India

Devendra Kumar Ved, India

North America

Janice Alcorn, USA

John Thor Arnason, Canada

Michael J. Balick, USA

Ganesan Balachander, USA

Mark Blumenthal, USA

Doug O. Fuller, USA

Steven King, USA

Sarah Laird, USA

John Lambert, USA

Nina Marshall, USA

Daniel Moerman, USA

Robin Marles, Canada

Alan Pierce, USA

Christopher Robbins, USA

Ernest Small, Canada

Europe

Sema Atay, Turkey

Emilio Blanco Castro, Spain

Michel Cambornac, France

Shahina Agha Ghazanfar, UK

Alan Hamilton, UK

Dagmar Lange, Germany

Chris Leon, UK

Victor Ivanovich Melnik, Ukraine

Susan Minter, UK

Magdalena Mladenova, Bulgaria

Eva Nemeth, Hungary

Sarah Oldfield, UK

Marileen Reinders, Netherlands

Anca Sarbu, Romania

Uwe Schippmann, Germany

Carsten Smith Olsen, Denmark

Paul Vantomme, Italy

Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

Africa, West Indian Ocean, and the Middle East

Laurent Ake-Assi, Ivory Coast

Rachid Chemli, Tunisia

Ermias Dagne, Ethiopia

Nigel Gericke, South Africa

Nat Quansah, Madagascar

Moh. Rejdali, Morocco

Vivienne Williams, South Africa

South Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand

Bill Aalbersberg, Fiji

Tony Cunningham, Australia

Stephan R.P. Halloy, NZ

Patricia Shanley, Indonesia

East and North Asia

Reza Azmi, Malaysia

Zhao De-Xiu, China

Pei Shengji, China

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