UNEP-WCMC: Medicinal Plants in Ghana

Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in Ghana 1999-2002

Participating organisations: Ghana

Aburi Botanic Gardens
P.O. Box 23 Aburi Ghana Tel: +233 21 764337/876 22022 Fax: +233 21 777821
Project liaison point: George Owusu-Afriyie (Director). Project staff: Theophilus Agbovie; Crensil O'Rourke; William Ofosuhene-Djan; Konings Ampansah. Project activities comprised development of a medicinal plant garden including cultivation of nursery stock for local use; development of a database of information on these plants, including source of material and details of plant use based on ethnobotanical research; development of a manual on establishing home medicinal plant gardens and contributing to the end project report and CD-ROM on the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants.

Department of Botany
University of Ghana PO Box LG 55, Legon, Ghana Tel: +233 21 500 382 Email: plec@ug.edu.gh; botany@ug.edu.gh	Department of Botany
Project liaison point: Professor Enu-Kwesi (Head). Project staff: Professor Odamtten; Daniel Abbiw; Patrick Ekpe; Alex Asase (Herbarium); Mary Yankson (Botanic Garden). Project activities comprised: computerisation of the Herbarium's medicinal plant specimen sheets, including information on the location of each specimen; development of a medicinal plant garden within the University Botanic Garden; development of a manual on establishing home medicinal plant garden; contributing to the in situ conservation components of a final report/CD-ROM mapping the distribution of medicinal plants in Ghana.

Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (CERSGIS)
University of Ghana PO Box 59, Legon, Ghana Tel: +233 21 500301/501796 Fax: +233 21 500310 Email: rsau@ug.edu.gh
Project liaison point: Dr E.Amamoo-Otchere (Director). Project staff: Benjamin Akuetteh. Project activities comprised: hosting the initial database training session; provision of technical support to the Herbarium and Aburi Botanic Garden; production of the end of project CD-ROM including in situ and ex situ conservation data produced by the Herbarium and Aburi Botanic Garden, habitat maps and protected area maps.

Participating organisations: UK

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Inverleith Row Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK Tel: +44 131 552 7171 Fax: +44 131 552 0382 Email: k.walter@rbge.org.uk
Project liaison point: Dr. Kerry Walter (Database designer). Kerry installed the database system for the project. He also trained staff at the Herbarium, CERSGIS and Aburi Botanic Gardens to use this system.

Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Descanso House 199 Kew Road, Richmond Surrey TW8 3BW, UK Tel: +44 0208 332 5953/4/5 Fax: +44 0208 332 5956 Email: frd@bgci.rbgkew.org.uk	Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Project liaison point: Fiona Dennis, (Projects Officer), provided training in horticultural practices and worked with the staff at Aburi Botanic Gardens and the University of Ghana Botanic Gardens in the development of their medicinal plant gardens. She managed the ethnobotanical research in the local community and edited the Ethnobotanical Survey and also supervised production of, and edited, the Manual for the Propagation and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants in Ghana.

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK Tel: +44 1223 277314 Fax: +44 1223 277136 Email:harriet.gillett@unep-wcmc.org
Project liaison point: Harriet Gillett (Senior Programme Officer). Harriet was project leader, responsible for the overall management of the project. She ran the database training workshops with Dr. Walter, provided on-going database support and produced the Medicinal Plant Workbooks for Aburi Botanic Gardens and the Herbarium. She also co-ordinated production of and edited: the Conservation Report; the project posters; the project website and the CD-ROM. Gerardo Fragoso supervised and advised on project implementation. Julie Reay and Lise Jackson provided administrative support; Paul Birrell and Phill Fox provided technical support; Ian May produced the maps; Mary Edwards produced the posters and Laura Nicholls and James O'Carroll developed the web site.