The collection of medicinal plants has been intensified lately in Albania mostly due to the need of rural population for the returns from selling such plants. Due to this activity there is an overexploitation of the medicinal plants leading in depletion of the wild populations. One solution to this problem would be the cooperative cultivation of such plants in rural communities. This would improve the environmental quality by decreasing the collection pressure in natural populations of medicinal plants, and would contribute in creating a culture of cooperation among rural communities that collect these plants.

The project aims to decrease the existing collection pressure on medicinal plants in the Commune of Shkrel, Malesia e Madhe and is coofinanced by REC