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 New
project on forest genetic resources
A new project on forest genetic resources (FGR), i.e. ‘Establishment of
a European Information System on Forest Genetic Resources (EUFGIS)’ was launched on 1 April 2007 for a period 3.5 years. The project is
funded by the European Commission under the Community programme on the
conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic
resources in agriculture, established by Council Regulation No EC
870/2004. Click here to read more.
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 Climate change and forest genetic diversity:
Implications for sustainable forest management in Europe
Paris, France, 15-16 March 2006
Summary report
Climate change is predicted to increase average temperatures
by
2–4°C in Europe over the next 50 years and cause considerable changes in
regional and seasonal patterns of precipitation. This will alter the
environmental conditions to which forest trees in Europe are adapted and create
additional challenges for forest management, with consequent impacts on the
economic and social benefits derived from forests.
Click here to read more.
You can download
the PDF file of the
second announcement, the
agenda,
the list of Participants, the
pre-workshop summaries,
the
Press release
and PowerPoint presentations
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 First
meeting of the Forest Management Network
The Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry
Rhineland-Palatinate hosted the first meeting of the EUFORGEN Forest
Management Network in Lambrecht (Pfalz), Germany on 3-5 November 2005. Representatives from 22
countries discussed the role of gene conservation as part of sustainable
forest management and how genetic issues are taken into account in management
practices at national level. The meeting also discussed the objectives of
Phase III and developed a workplan for the Forest Management Network.
Click here to read more
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 Ash
for the future: defining European ash populations for
conservation and regeneration
FRAXIGEN, a research project funded under the EU 5th framework
programme, has been underway for the last three years in six
European countries to improve our understanding of the genetic
resources of the three principal native Fraxinus species of
Europe: F. excelsior, F. angustifolia and F. ornus. The FRAXIGEN
project (EU contract no. EVK2-CT-2001-00108) has ten partners in
Greece, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom
carrying out parallel studies on the three species in different
areas of their natural distribution. Read
more 
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 Science
and the MCPFE process
On 13 October 2004, a preparatory workshop analyzed these gaps
and discussed the past and future of the science-policy
interface in Warsaw, Poland. The workshop was hosted by the
Polish Forest Research Institute and organized by the European
Forest Institute (EFI), in collaboration with the International
Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), the International
Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), IPGRI and the
United Nations University (UNU).
click here to read more
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MCPFE
Expert Level meeting 2004
The Liaison Unit Warsaw of the Ministerial Conference on the
Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) organized the annual
Expert Level meeting in Warsaw, Poland on 14-15 October 2004.
The meeting reviewed the implementation of the new MCPFE Work
Programme adopted in October 2003 as a follow-up to the
Resolutions made at the Vienna Ministerial Conference in April
2003. Representatives from 30 European countries and the
European Commission, 17 observer organizations and one observer
country (Canada) also discussed future MCPFE activities.
click here to read more
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 New
EC Regulation on genetic resources published
On 24 April 2004, the European Commission released the new
Regulation (EC) No 870/2004 to establish a Community programme
on the conservation, characterisation, collection and
utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture.
Click here
for the Regulation text.
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 EUFORGEN
Phase III (2005-2009) endorsed
National Coordinators and Focal Persons from 30 countries
participated in the fourth Steering Committee meeting of the
European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN), held in
Židlochovice, Czech Republic on 26–29 May 2004. During a
first-day seminar, representatives from the European
Commission’s Directorate General for Agriculture, the Liaison
Unit Warsaw of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of
Forests in Europe (MCPFE), the European Forest Institute (EFI)
and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) addressed forest biological diversity and sustainable
forest management in Europe.
Click here to read more; or
download the full report in PDF format (577 Kb)
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 International
Treaty enters into force on 29 June 2004
On 31 March 2004, the number of countries ratified the
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture increased to 48, exceeding the required number of
instruments (40) for the Treaty to enter into force.
Subsequently, the Treaty will now enter into force after 90
days, i.e. on 29 June 2004. The Treaty was approved by the FAO
Conference in November 2001 to conserve and sustainably use of
plant genetic resources and to ensure the fair and equitable
sharing of benefits derived from their use. More detailed news
click here
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 MCPFE Expert Level Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 16-17 October 2003
The Liaison Unit of the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) is
organizing an
Expert Level Meeting to initiate the follow-up work of the Vienna Ministerial Conference, held in April 2003.
The aim of the meeting is to start the development of a work programme for the implementation of the commitments
made during the Vienna Conference and the reinforced implementation of previous commitments.
EUFORGEN, implementing Resolution 2 (Conservation of forest genetic resources) of the Strasbourg Ministerial Conference (1990),
will be represented by the Secretariat in the forthcoming Expert Level Meeting (
www.mcpfe.org
for more information).
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 Asia
Pacific Forest Genetic Resources Programme initiated
Representatives from twelve
countries participated in the
Inception Workshop of the Asia
Pacific Forest Genetic Resources
Programme (APFORGEN), Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, 15-18 July
2003. The participating
countries included Bangladesh,
India, Nepal, Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, Cambodia, Indonesia,
Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand,
Malaysia and Lao PDR while China
only submitted a country report.
The workshop was organized by
the Asia Pacific Association of
Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI)
and IPGRI in technical
collaboration with FAO. EUFORGEN
Coordinator also participated in
the workshop and provided
European experiences on regional
collaboration on forest genetic
resources. The countries
expressed their interest to
develop close collaboration
between APFORGEN and EUFORGEN.
The summary of the workshop and
further details are available
from Hong L.T. (
l.hong @ cgiar.org)
at the IPGRI Regional Office in
Malaysia.
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