Caught this on a recent trip to Venice. It’s embedded in an outside wall of St Mark’s Basilica. Agrobiodiversity was more crucial to iconography back in the Middle Ages, I guess.
Animal Genetic Resources reminder
The newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the IUCN Species Programme has just alerted me to a (fairly) recent edition of FAO’s international journal Animal Genetic Resources which I think we missed. It contains, among many other interesting things, a paper on “Conservation status of wild relatives of animals used for food” by P.J.K. McGowan.
Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault…
…by country of origin, on its third birthday.
Quality standards for in situ agrobiodiversity conservation published
This just in from Dr Jose Iriondo of the Depto. Biologia y Geologia, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Do provide your input if you can.
One of the deliverables of the AEGRO project (AGRI GENRES 057), 1 funded by the European Commission, DG AGRI within the framework of Council Regulation 870/2004, is the formulation of quality standards for genetic reserve conservation of crop wild relatives (CWR). The quality standards are a guide containing a set of criteria for the establishment of genetic reserves within existing protected areas and a set of management standards to optimise the efficacy of genetic reserves as a tool for the conservation of CWR.
The current version of these quality standards is available. We are interested in knowing you opinion. Please send us your comments and suggestions. We would appreciate it if you would also disseminate this email to members of the Crop Wild Relatives community and Protected Areas community in your country for additional feedback.
