Indicator 4.6.Genetic resources

Jarkko Koskela

EUFORGEN Coordinator

Bioversity InternationalRegional Office for Europe, Rome

UNECE/FAO ToS on Monitoring of Sustainable Forest Management

EU-JRC, Ispra, Italy, 26-28 January 2010

State of Europe’s Forests 2007

• Indicator 4.6 of the pan-European C&I for sustainable forest management– area managed for conservation and utilisation of

forest tree genetic resources (in situ and ex situgene conservation)

– area managed for seed production

• Trends in implementation of sustainable forest management in Europe (1990, 2000 and 2005)

State of Europe’s Forests 2007

• Area managed for in situ gene conservation– in situ gene conservation

units – gene reserve forests and

other similar areas – those natural parks and

other protected areas where gene conservation has been specifically identified as one of the management objectives

– “in situ” gene conservation units of landraces of exotic tree species

State of Europe’s Forests 2007

• Area managed for ex situ gene conservation– ex situ collections– long-term provenance

trials– ex situ gene conservation

units of genetic material of exotic tree species which have not yet developed into landraces

State of Europe’s Forests 2007

• Area managed for seed production– seed orchards– seed stands included in a

national register of basic material

State of Europe’s Forests 2007

• Data collection for indicator 4.6.– EUFORGEN National Coordinators and Focal

Points contacted– gene conservation and seed production of “major”

European tree species (i.e. those listed under the Council Directive (1999/105/EC) on the marketing of forest reproductive material and those ones the EUFORGEN Networks have been working with)

• Results presented in the report– tables for total areas per country; total areas of

selected species

Indicator 4.6. 1990-2005

• 38 countries provided data • 135 tree species, subspecies and hybrids • The total area managed for in situ gene conservation

increased from 316,000 ha to 748,000 ha (59->93 species)

• The area managed for ex situ gene conservation increased from 3,000 ha to 7,000 ha (56->85 species)

• The areas managed for seed production from 464,000 ha to 528,000 ha (85-> 90 species)

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State of Europe’s Forests 2007

• The level of gene conservation can be considered adequate for only a limited number of tree species in Europe

• The state of gene conservation is rather good for many stand-forming and widely distributed tree species– marginal populations?

• In case of many scattered, rare or endangered tree species there is a need to improve the situation

• Spatial distribution of the gene conservation efforts?

Data collection in 2010

• EUFORGEN National Coordinators and Focal Points will be contacted again

• New developments:– Pan-European minimum requirements for dynamic gene

conservation units (in situ) developed as part of the EUFGIS project

– Databases of breeding populations, collections and provenance trials (ex situ) by the TREEBREEDEX project

– Development of the State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources report (FAO) by 2013

– EUFORGEN Steering Committee: status of FGR conservation in Europe

• FRA Correspondents will have a change to review the preliminary data