Ezike ACand Ozumba MB Author

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Ethno-medicine Diversity of Some Forest Reserves in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

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Ozumba CI, Ezike AC and Ozumba MB

Despite advances made in modern and orthodox medicine, traditional medicine has gained renewed attention in healthcare services given the inadequacy of the existing health facilities, resources and a growing population. Traditional medicine knowledge is, however, been endangered by mortality of custodians of the knowledge, extinction of plant resources, inadequate scientific research, and poor documentation and patenting. As part of its corporate social responsibility to the host communities and in a bid to conserve biodiversity in alignment with the Rio declaration, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), commissioned a pilot study in 2014 to document ethno-medicine and associated indigenous knowledge held by the people of different community forests in the Niger... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2327-4417.1000197

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