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for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe

 

  

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In order to be able to guarantee a cross-border monitoring the «Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe» was established in automn 1995. The institute works as independent scientific branch of the European SAVE Foundation.

The Monitorig Institute acts as NGO-service-center for all bodies interested in live conservation of rare breeds and plant varieties (NGOs and GOs). It acquires scientifically founded basic data for the securing and long-term conservation of genetic resources in European agriculture. The tasks of the institute can in short be described as: mapping, watching, alarming:

  • Recording and documentation of endangered breeds of farm animals and varieties of cultivated plants by studying old agriculturaland veterinary publications and by searching in a specific area or in a promising area (mapping)
  • permanent survey of the situation and call for action, if necessary, as well as judgement of the measures being taken (watching)
  • waking awareness, both in the wider public and in decisionmakers. Regular assessment of a possible need for action, alarming of responsible institutions and organizations (alarming)

The Institute doesn't execute own conservation projects.
 

=> more information gives the separate homepage of the Monitoring Institute.

 

Projects:

Regional-Monitoring:

  • Monitoring in the Alps
  • Monitoring in the Carpathians - Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania
  • Monitoring study Italy
  • Monitoring study Greece
  • Monitoring in the Balkan

Species-Monitoring:

  • Monitoring on Goats
  • Monitoring on Donkey breeds in Europe
  • RareBase database on the development of rare breeds

Plant-Monitoring:

  • Historical register of useful plants (OldSeeds-database)
  • Agrobiodiversity with useful plants (pilot study in german speaking countries)
  • Fruit-Net database

 

=> Descriptions for each project are available on the Monitoring Institute website

 

03-24, 2006

 

info(at)monitoring.eu.com

Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe

Schneebergstrasse 17
CH-9000 St.Gallen
Switzerland
Tel. +41-(0)71/222 74 10
Fax: +41-(0)71/222 74 40

Monitoring in the Carpathians: Buffalos in Transcarpathia (photo Traxler)