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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 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 the last Saturday in September. The EAD is also increasingly used by other organisations.
    => Link to the actual EAD documents
 

International Networks:

  • 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)
  • Balkan-Network
    (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 MB, requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in the Carpathians
    =>     Project description (download 268 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Arca-Net
    is an internet portal for the networking and promotion of institutions showing rare breeds to the public, as ark-farms, pedagogic farms, open air museums, animal parks, etc.. A test version was made for the German speaking countries, the extension to English, French and Italian is under construction.
    => Link to the     Arca-Net
    => Project description     Arca-Net_flyer.pdf (download 65 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)
 

Monitoring projects:
executed by the Monitoring Institute

 

Basic projects:

  • Workshop on plant and animal genetic resources of the Carpathians (at Suceava, Romania, May 1999) *
    =>     Synthesis reports (PDF file, 815 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
    The full report (120 pages) may be ordered (by adding Euro 20.-) from SAVE.
    => Link to     Carpathian Workshop
  • 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.
  • Establishment and Furtherance of Breeder Associations in CEE-countries
  • Conservation of rare livestock breeds and epidemic control
    =>     SaveNews special
  • Model Project Agro-Biodiversity at Lake Constance
    =>     brochures for the model region

 

Rescue projects:
  • 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
  • Podgorska red cattles, Poland (conservation of a nucleus breed) *
  • Karakachan horses and sheep, Bulgaria (establishment of new breeding groups)
    => project description Karakachan.pdf (PDF file, 56 KB, requires Acrobat Reader)
    => interim report Dec. 2002 in German language (480 KB) see project page of the German version of this website.

 

Coordination projects:
  • Mangalitsa pig / Wollschwein (H, R, SCG, A, CH, D)
  • Girgentana goat (I, D)
  • Bovska sheep / Slovenian stonesheep (SLO, A, D)
  • Carinthian sheep / Brillenschaf / Villnösser / Seeländer (A, D, I, SLO)
  • Rouge de Roussillon sheep (F, D)
  • Sumavka sheep / Waldschaf / Cikta sheep (CZ, A, D, H)
  • Valachian sheep (SK, CZ, D)
  • Pustertal cattle (I, D)
  • Red cattle (PL, CZ, A, D)
  • Hucul horses (UA, RO, PL, CZ, HU, A)

    => The situation of the above mentioned breeds is analysed regularly by SAVE. The contacts and the stockdatas in each country and the possible need for action are published in the biannual 'SAVE Focus' (available for Euro 7 plus postage).

    A copy of the actual '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).

  • 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).
       

 

Supporting projects:
  • Posavina horse, Croatia (support for breedregister and bloodtyping) *
  • Istrian Grey cattle / Karstvieh, Croatia (exchange of vet surgeons for ET) *

 

*executed projects

 

 

Situation as of: january 17th, 2008

 

 

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