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Raising awareness:

  • SAVE eNews
    The "SAVE eNews" is an electronic information service which is issued cost-free four times a year. It provides regular news on the topic of conservation of threatened animal breeds, cultivated plant varieties, agrobiodiversity and networking. The SAVE eNews is available in English and in German. For a subscription to this newsletter just write an e-mail to the newsmaster with your address and e-mail address.
    => Link to the
    SAVE eNews Archiv
  • European Seminars on Agrobiodiversity
    => Link to the
    5th Seminar in Dimitrovgrad, September 2011
  • European Agro-Biodiversity Day (EAD)
    PR event about the importance of Agro-Biodiversity. Various activities of the national organisations in the SAVE Network in their own countries. The EAD is held always at 29 September (St-Michaels Day). The EAD is also increasingly used by other organisations.
    => Link to the actual EAD documents 
  • Conservation of rare livestock breeds and epidemic control*
    =>
    SaveNews special

International Networks:

  • Arca-Net
    is an internet portal for the networking and promotion of institutions in Europe showing rare breeds and historical plants to the public, as ark-farms, pedagogic farms, open air museums, animal parks, variety gardens etc.. Search functions in English, French, German and Italian.
    => Link to the
    Arca-Net
    => Project description
    Arca-Net overview.pdf (download 76 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Fruit-Net
    for neglected and forgotten fruits and berries: Online-Inventory of the still existing varieties and the active conservation organisations in Europe.
    => Link to the
    Fruit-Net
    => project description
    Fruit_Net_project.pdf (download 152 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Variety-Savers
    an internet-portal for listing all keepers of indigenous livestock breeds and cultivators of indigenous cultivated plants in Europe. Variety-Savers should be used to network, to share information, to list events and to sell products and services relating to European agrobiodiversity.
    => Information flyer
    => Link to the
    Variety-Savers.Net
  • ELBARN
    European Livestock Breeds Ark and Rescue Net
    Co-financed by the EU-Commission in the frame of GenRes 870/2004
    =>
    ELBARN.pdf (435 KB, project description)
    => Report of the Pilot study from March 2000 (requires Acrobat Reader)
    => Link to the ELBARN-Website
  • Agrobiodiversity.Net
    Internet-Portal with links to NGO- and GO-Networks on European, regional and national level. The portal is suitable as a start page in the internet browser for those who regularly have to do with agrobiodiversity.
    =>
    Link to Agrobiodiversit.Net

Projects:

  • Synonym Index of Fruit Variety Names
    An impuls for cooperation over and above borders and languages. Particularly, the transfer of experience, knowledge and plant materials will be facilitated and noticeably simplified.
    =>
    project description (PDF 36 KB)
    => Link to the Synonym Index
  • Launching of the "Heritaste" trademark (registered) to promote products and services from autochthonous livestock breeds and cultivated plants.
    =>
    Trademark with draft conditions
  • Donkey breeds in Europe*
    =>
    Final report of the study (PDF 1.3 MB)
    =>
    English abstract (PDF 132 KB)
  • Management of Feral Populations in Europe
    =>
    project description (PDF 44 KB)
    => data sheet for the survey 2011/2012
  • SAVE Focus*
    The situation of crossborder occurring breeds was analysed regularly by SAVE. The contacts and the stockdatas in each country and the possible need for action were published in the biannual '
    SAVE Focus'. Today the breed data are published in online databases (so called breed atlas'). A copy of the last 'SAVE Focus 2005' with addresses, breed descriptions, pictures and the breeding data from 2004/2005 can be downloaded here as PDF-file:
    => SaveFocus_2005.pdf (PDFfile, 336 KB, requires newest Adobe Reader for working links).
  • NGO-Zoom Fruits (Inventory/portrait of NGOs conserving fruit varieties) *
    =>
    Edition June 2001 (download 865 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
    Unfortunately the printed edition is not more available.
 

Alpine circle:

 

Balkans:

  • Balkans Network for Agrobiodiversity
    (coord. of conservation measures, establishment of rare breed centres)
    => Link to the Network website
    => Project description
    Balkan_Network.pdf (download 236 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
    => SAVE Focus, Special Edition Balkan: Balkan_Focus.pdf (PDFfile, 2.6 MBe, requires Acrobat Reader)
    => Rare Breeds and Varieties of the Balkans, Atlas 2009 BreedatlasBalkan.pdf (140 pages, 4,6 MB)
  • Rescue Station for three endangered Albanian pig breeds in the Buna-Delta, Albania
    =>
    short english summary (PDF 56 KB)
    => Report 2008 (PDF 988 KB)
    =>
    Report 2009 (PDF 384 KB)
  • Water Buffalo in Southeast Europe, especially the Carpathian type, and establishment of an international Buffalo-Network
    => Intermediate report
    Carpathian_Buffalo_2009.pdf (56 KB)
    => Link to the Buffalo Workshop Sighisoara 2011
  • Prespa cattle in Greece and Albania
    =>
    Prespa_cattle.pdf, report on identification and conservation (PDF file, 376 KB)
  • Turopolje pigs, Croatia (conservation of a nucleus breed) *
    => pictures and short report
  • Karakachan horses and sheep, Bulgaria (establishment of new breeding groups)*
    => project description Karakachan.pdf (PDF file, 56 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
  • A special edition of the SAVE Focus for the Balkans shows the situation of transboundary occurring breeds and breed groups of Pramenka- and Tsigai-sheep, Grey Stepp- and Busha-cattle and of the domestic buffalo in the Balkan countries.*
    =>
    SAVE_Focus_05_Balkan.pdf (PDFfile, 2.2 MB, requires acrobat Reader).
  • Posavina horse, Croatia (support for breedregister and bloodtyping) *
  • Istrian Grey cattle / Karstvieh, Croatia (exchange of vet surgeons for ET) *

 

Carpathians:

 

Mediterranean:
  • Agricultural Genetic Resources in Italy*
    Endangerment, Conservation initatives, Need for action
    => Link to
    Italy Monitoring
  • Animal Genetic Resources in Greece*
    =>
    Project description (download 292 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
    => Breedatlas_Greece (download 4.8 MB, requires Acrobat Reader)
    => Link to the AgroBiodiversity-Net in Greece
  • Prespa cattle in Greece and Albania
    =>
    Prespa_cattle.pdf, report on identification and conservation (PDF file, 376 KB)
  • Conservation of the Sykia steppe cattle in Greece
  • Breeding coordination for Girgentana goats (I, D)*
  • Survey regarding the population and ethology of feral Axios horses in Greece 2008*
    executed by Amaltheia (
    Greek Society for the Protection and Preservation of ILivestock Breeds)
    =>
    Report Axios horses (PDF 1,3 MB)   

 

*executed projects

 

Situation as of: November 8, 2011

 

 

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Coordination project Mangalitsa: Red Mangalitsa from Romania (photo Traxler)