Many varieties of medicinal plants and flowers in Darjeeling are facing extinction

Worldwide, traditional medicinal systems are in the process of being modernised. Besides health care and conservation of medicinal plants, the rights of the local communities that have preserved these systems for centuries are also at stake

at a time when India's herb exports have tripled, several medicinal plants face extinction. The recent rediscovery of natural medicine has fuelled a sharp increase in commercial demand for

The medicinal neem tree is under attack from an hitherto unknown fungus