We are actively involved in awareness generation thru seminars, workshops, plantation programmes and training to community with their participation on issues like women and environment; cultivation of medicinal plants, clean water resources techniques and environmental pollution. The programmes conduct under NEAC (National Environment Awareness Campaign) the programme is financial assistance by Ministry of environment & forest Govt. of India thru nodal agency EPCO (Environment Planning & Coordination Organization), Bhopal. We took part in wetland conservation through awareness generation, under Bhojwetland Project (Project if funded by Japan Bank for International Cooperation & implemented by) for conservation of upper & Lower lakes of Bhopal; put efforts to generate awareness in rural and urban catchments area covered under bigger lakes, conducted seminars, rallies, quiz programmes, painting competitions with different target groups like rural community, school children & teachers

Medicinal plants

Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including defense and protection against insects fungi diseases, and herbivorous mammals.

The earliest historical records of herbs are found from the Sumerian civilization, where hundreds of medicinal plants including opium are listed on clay tablets, c. 3000 BC. The Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt, c. 1550 BC, describes over 850 plant medicines. The Greek physician Dioscorides, who worked in the Roman army, documented over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants inDe materia medica , c. 60 AD; this formed the basis of; pharmacopoeias for some 1500 years. Drug research sometimes makes use of ; ethnobotany to search for pharmacologically active substances, and this approach has yielded hundreds of useful compounds. These include the common drugs aspirin, digoxin quinine, and opium. The compounds found in plants are diverse, with most in four biochemical classes: alkaloids glycosides polyphenols , and terpenes. Few of these are scientifically confirmed as medicines or used in conventional medicine.

Medicinal plants are widely used as folk medicine in non-industrialized societies, mainly because they are readily available and cheaper than modern medicines. The annual global export value of the thousands of types of plants with medicinal properties was estimated to be US$60 billion per year and growing at the rate of 6% per annum. no print Inline-Template Template-Fact This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023) citation needed In many countries, there is little regulation of traditional medicine, but the World Health Organization coordinates a network to encourage safe and rational use. The botanical herbal market has been criticized for being poorly regulated and containing placebo and pseudoscience products with no scientific research to support their medical claims. Medicinal plants face both general threats, such as climate change and habitat destruction and the specific threat of over-collection to meet market demand.

Women environment

The world is unique for every human being, but, in general, women’s lives vary greatly from those of men because of patterns of around the world play distinct roles: in managing plants and animals in forests, drylands, wetlands and agriculture; in collecting water, fuel and fodder for domestic use and income generation; and in overseeing land and water resources. By so doing, they contribute time, energy, skills and personal visions to family and community development. Women&rsquo extensive experience makes them an invaluable source of knowledge and expertise on environmental management and appropriate actions. Women, gender and equality – still a wide gap While women’s environmental contributions offer an incentive for a thorough analysis of gender, there is a broader perspective as well. A recent World Bank study (2002) found that gender equality is essential for countries’ economies. And, as Aguilar (2002) argues, sustainable development is not possible without equity. In fact, it is a prerequisite forany action aimed at improving people’s quality of life. This implies thatgender equality and equity are not only a question of fundamental humanrights and social justice, but are also instrumental, and a precondition, forenvironmental conservation, sustainable development and human security