As we strive to make a successful transition to a more secure and sustainable future on earth, zoopharmacognosy research could offer critical information and provide indispensable knowledge. Through this wider understanding of our natural world we increase opportunities to contribute to biodiversity information, environmental conservation, ecosystem management, ethnobotanical research and permaculture practices. Additionally we can acquire further information on data gathering for habitat and protected area maps and more insights in agricultural and horticultural sciences, and the Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Analysis of zoopharmacognosy associations can provide a wide angled perspective on understanding ecosystems and habitats and assist in identifying the sustainable environmental values which can also impact animal health economics.

Exploration of zoopharmacognosy behaviours helping define associations of individual vertebrate animals with various plant species for health and survival, may be implicated in some of the unexpected and unusual migratory and breeding patterns seen today. Further research can assist the professional community in helping to predict extinction ranges more accurately, all of which have impact on the environment. It has the potential to support a more natural and cost-effective approach to sustaining our wildlife in their natural habitat. Providing nature’s wild remedies in the design of our agricultural farms, gardens, captive animal enclosures and habitats such as zoos and wildlife reserves, can also benefit the health and well being of the individual animals themselves, as would a variety of conservation efforts. Associations between animal species, and environmental sources for health maintenance, is more in design with nature and other characteristics of the land for and could offer potential in:

• preserving biological diversity and environmental systems
• a valuable contribution towards creating stable agricultural ecosystems
• contributing as indicators for ecological networks beyond that of food webs and environmental change assessments
• offering another tool in restoring fragile or damaged habitats, helping the wilderness re-establish itself
• potential indicators for wildlife and environmental conservation and management