Zoopharmacognosy: A Source of Advancing Animal, Environmental and Human Healthcare Needs
Out of crisis lies opportunity for innovation in animal and human healthcare needs.

This website is a portal with the primary aim to build awareness, foster partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, share information and other forms of chain collaboration with professionals worldwide.

Wildlife & Animal healthcare / Rehabilitation

Wildlife Health, Conservation Environmental Challenges

Some of the benefits include:

  • provides environmental enrichment for captive zoo animals and can assist with wildlife rehabilitation
  • offers another tool in understanding habitats and ecosystems
  • offers a more synergistic relationship between human beings and nature
  • preserving biological diversity
  • could contribute towards the management and prevention of animal diseases for wildlife, livestock and domestic animals
  • can highlight the medicinal needs and requirements of wild free-roaming animals and help critically assess the suitability of their habitat if there is disease or illness
  • provide more radical thinking in setting research agendas and developing implementation strategies in its approach to controlling and management of animal-borne diseases
  • identification of species and their therapeutic botanical needs can contribute as indicators for ecological networks that go beyond food webs and environmental change assessment
Zoopharmacognosy behaviour: Macaws gather on clay lick, a useful source of minerals to supplement their diet and for promoting the elimination of excess plant toxins or internal parasites from the digestive system.

Public Health, Diseases & Natural Drug Discovery

Some of the benefits include:

  • contribute to the control and management of zoonoses diseases (transmitted diseases between animals and humans)
  • identification of new bioactive sources can inform Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical research
  • being a factor in controlling and management of disease outbreaks
  • animal’s innate response to therapeutic botanical sources, their evolutionary adaptation and connection to their surrounding environment, can offer vital clues and a more cost-effective method of the ever increasing costs of new drug synthesis and development
  • sharing knowledge and skills and exploring strategies can offer opportunities for academic, government departments, private professional and non government organisations
  • maximising animal health and the important links between economy and epidemiology
  • the ancient practice of Zoopharmacognosy emerging as a new science for International exchange of it’s applications