SAVE Foundation
		Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe
Home Actuality SAVE Foundation Monitoring Institute Projects Publications Conferences SAVE Network / links Board of Directors Support Downloads Contact Deutsche Version Version française Ark Network Agrobioversity.Net Epidemics		It's time to act... Generations of breeding work have given rise, over thousands of years, to a multitude of agricultural animal breeds and plant varieties that are optimally adapted to their specific regional environmental conditions. In the same way, the landscape bears the distinct imprint of farmers' widely varying, regional adapted land utilization in crop cultivation and grazing. The industralization of agriculture in recent decades has increasingly threatened this genetically and historically valuable, human-imprinted biodiversity. Numerous agricultural animal breeds and plant varieties possessing genetic potential worthy of conservation as well as many regional locations with their specific flora and fauna are already irretrievably lost.		old tomato varieties in different size and color
		rare Hutsul horses in the Carpathians	SAVE Foundation The SAVE Foundation acts as European umbrella organization for the promotion and coordination of activieties for the conservation of endangered breeds of domestic animals and cultivated plant varieties in the form of live populations. Collection and dissemination of information as well as coordination and support of national activities are the main focuses. In various countries, national organizations must still be established or expanded. Additionally. enormous tasks present themselves in Eastern and Southeastern Europe where agriculture is experiencing a radical restructuring. Conservation projects are realized primarly on farm.
office(at)save-foundation.net SAVE Head Office Joseph-Belli-Weg 5 D-78467 Konstanz Germany					2007-02-02