Discovering what the Nature has Reserved to Us

The nature has the solutions to the problems of human health. We get our natural food from the ecosystems but in this changing World, the genetically modified organisms and products are affecting the biodiversity including humans. The use of chemicals has affected the health of humans, pollinators, plants, herpetofauna, birds, mammals, fishes, and other animals. The non communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, Heart attack, mental problems are increasing due to the heavy metals that people are eating due to the environmental pollution, climate change, hunger, and poverty. The pandemics such as COVID-19, Ebola, and others have killed many people and animals because of the mismanagement of wildlife. If nothing is done, the World will face many more pandemics and a lot of faunal and floral health and life will be lost.

The list of natural food that we got from our ancestors is not yet exhaustive and doesn’t make sense how many people are not discovering the new natural food from animal and plants. We are sure that the nature that we have around Nyungwe National Park and other ecosystems in this country has the medicines and the new food and doing a consistent research and exploration we can find the answers to the questions we ask ourselves and we can help this World to find the medicine and vaccine of the pandemics including COVID-19.

The role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning, climate regulation, and provision of goods and services is well known, and thus contributing to human wellbeing. The wellbeing of rural poor families often depends on biodiversity for a wide range of natural resources and ecosystem services, and are therefore affected when biodiversity is degraded, over-exploited misused. For understanding the role of biodiversity conservation to the social welfare, the specific pathways through which changes in biodiversity affect people’s livelihood choices and strategies need to be more carefully identified and the people need to understand their relationship with biodiversity. Having this checklist of medicinal plants is a way of waking up the chemists, physicians, biologists, and other scientists to tell them to find the solutions to the communities using the available resources and promote the One health system for sustainable livelihoods.