Harry Jonas met with traditional healers at the Vukuzenzele medicinal plants nursery, in the Kruger2Canyons (K2C) on 18 June 2009, in partnership with the Biosphere Committee and the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency.
At the meeting, the traditional healers raised a series of concerns, including the continued illegal collection and over-harvesting of medicinal plants in the K2C that is endangering the supply of wild medicinal plants, the continued use of their traditional knowledge without their consent or acknowledgement and the fact that they remain unregistered healers, thus operating outside a regulatory framework. The next workshop is scheduled for the 9 July and will address these specific issues in more detail.
