Challenges of wildlife with therapeutic properties in Nigeria; a conservation perspective

Abstract

Traditional medicine practitioners typically use ecosystem resources for the treatment of several types of diseases. Plants and animals have been widely employed to these effects. For instance, authors have variously reported that medicinal plants as plant whose different parts (leaves, fruits, flower, roots, stem etc) have pharmacological properties.3–9 In addition, several parts of animals are used for the treatment of some disease conditions. The use of plants and animals parts for managing diseases has the tendency to reduce the dependency on modern medicine for certain disease conditions. According to Djagoun et al.,10 the use of animals with therapeutic potentials has socioeconomic and cultural importance and could lead to reduction in number of populace that patronizes modern medicine.