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add text to collecting and conservation #49

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
add text provided by Ruth when she sends it to us

Original issue reported on code.google.com by colin.kh...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2012 at 5:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Here is the text:

Collecting CWR
A quarter of our plant diversity is threatened worldwide with extinction due to 
unsustainable agriculture and forestry practices, urbanisation, 
over-collection, pollution, land use changes, the spread of invasive alien 
species and climate change.  CWR are no less subject to these threats.  There 
is an urgent need to collect CWR, the building blocks of the future, to ensure 
all options for the future are maintained. 

The scale of the collecting need is too large to be completed by one 
organisation alone, a concerted and prioritised effort is needed.  This is 
recognised in the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation where target 9 
includes the conservation of CWR.  The gap analyses available on this website 
present one powerful form of prioritisation.  The results here can be used to 
target and co-ordinate collecting efforts at local, national, regional and 
global levels.

Ex situ CWR collections form a vital source of plant genetic resources for 
breeding as well as being important for conservation.  This significance for 
breeding can only be realised if collections are available to pre-breeders.  
Stumbling blocks to availability include small seed collections, insufficient 
resource to carry out distribution, lack of awareness and political decisions.  
A major concern is surrounding benefit sharing and however several mechanisms 
are in place to address this.  The most overarching is the Convention on 
Biological Diversity (CBD) requiring access and benefit sharing and for Annex 1 
species the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and 
Agriculture (ITPGRFA).  The ITPGRFA mandates transfer of a subset of plant 
genetic resources (Annex 1 taxa) using a Standard Material Transfer Agreement 
(SMTA) which lays out permitted uses of the material and requires a percentage 
of commercial profits to be paid into an access and benefit sharing fund.  

The seed collecting process is described in detail on the website of the 
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.

Original comment by colin.kh...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2012 at 5:06

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Original comment by htobon on 11 Jul 2012 at 8:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
link within text to http://www.cbd.int/gspc/ at "Global Strategy for Plant 
Conservation"
http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/save-seed-prosper/millennium-seed-bank/s
aving-seeds-worldwide/collecting-seeds/index.htm  at "Collecting Process"
http://www.planttreaty.org/  at "ITPGRFA"
http://www.cbd.int/ at "CBD"

Original comment by colin.kh...@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2012 at 2:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hector and Alex- I uploaded this and made links within wordpress as a page 
"Collecting and Conservation"  this just needs to be linked to the tab on the 
homepage to go live.  Please go ahead.

Original comment by colin.kh...@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2012 at 2:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
done!

Should I mark this issue as fixed now?

Original comment by htobon on 12 Jul 2012 at 2:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Answered by email:

yes!
Colin Khoury

Original comment by htobon on 12 Jul 2012 at 3:11

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Original comment by colin.kh...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2012 at 5:51