The Conservation Strategies for Endangered Medicinal Plants Used by Tribals in Central India

India is one of the world's twelve regions with the largest biodiversity. Central India is a home land for more than thirty tribal races living there in association with thousands of medicinal plant species for years together. Each tribal race has its own traditional knowledge for the use of these plant species to cure a number of infectious diseases and metabolic disorders but due to uncontrolled industrial growth, urbanization pressure, unethical activities and illegal cutting of forest, the forest habitat of tribal races is getting destroyed continuously along with biodiversity which is rich in ethnomedicinal specimens. This has triggered a high rate of morbidity and mortality among some sensitive tribal races. An attempt has been made to find out loss of biodiversity linked with tribals and their association with surrounding medicinal plants. Special efforts have been taken to find out endangered medicinal plants and their in situ and ex situ conservation strategies.