中药的使用会威胁生物多样性吗?

Does the utilization of traditional Chinese herbs threaten the biodiversity?

当前社会上有些人认为中医药大量使用源于动植物的药材是对生物多样性的严重破坏,就此观点,本文深入讨论了中药与生物多样性的关系,建议理性分析中医药对野生动植物资源的了解和利用与保护生物多样性之间的关系。作者认为,在正确的管理和引导下,中医药对野生动植物的利用和生物多样性的保护之间应为良性的互动关系。但同时要认识到,我国在动植物保护和开发利用协调方面的工作还存在很多不足,应进一步完善切实有效的中药资源保护的法律法规,尽快全面开展本底资料的调查工作,加强公民中医药资源保护的意识并积极发展产业化人工种植或养殖等工作。

In the view of the idea that the utilization of wild plants and animals in traditional Chinese medicine is destroying the biodiversity, this article discusses the relationship between traditional Chinese medicine and the biodiversity from a new point of view. The authors consider that reasonable utilization of the wildlife in traditional Chinese herbal medicine is beneficial to the protection of wildlife under proper management and guidance： However, there is still a long way to go to balance the relationship between the wildlife protection and exploration. In view of this, some propositions are put forward, including enforcing the relative laws and rules for herbal resources protection, carrying out the research work of the background data, formulating the standard for the classification of the rare and endangered species, accelerating the investigation of the substitute resources of extinctive wildlife for medical use, enforcing the citizens＇ consciousness of wildlife protection and developing the industrial and artificial cultivation of traditional Chinese herbal medicinal plants and animals.