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Building and maintaining Biodiversity Repositories around the world – Successes and Pitfalls Workshop on Biodiversity and Climate Change April 10-17 Astana and Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan Dr. Rainer W. Bussmann William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden MBG-WLBC PROGRAMS Ethnobotany Discovery Climate Change Sacred Seeds Conservation and Sustainability DNA bank (taxonomy) Food Library Biocultural Collection Herbarium Seedbank An integrated Bio-repository Program Example Peru / Bolivia Documentation of traditional knowledge Documentation of collection / market flows Assessment of efficacy and toxicity of traditional medicine Establishment of collections (herbaria, germplasm, gardens) Repatriation of traditional knowledge Ethnobotany Network of ethnobotanical gardens http://www.sacredseedssanctuary.org/ Monitoring climate change Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) Repatriation of traditional knowledge Pitfalls - Bhutan Strict conservation policy leads to: Loss of traditional - agricultural practice Loss of traditional - knowledge Over-aged forests with - limited regeneration Taxonomic problems in botanical research Pitfalls - Peru Simple arson leads to loss of a major biodiversity repository Pitfalls - Caucasus No production of local cereal varieties in most areas since the 1980s Maintenance of limited diversity in small cereal germplasm collections Pitfalls - Caucasus Vegetable diversity in-situ in small homegardens Difficulty to maintain living collections of cultivated herbal and woody species Pitfalls - Madagascar In-situ biodiversity repository as well as nursery for endemic species destroyed when fire jumps a double fire-break Biodiversity Repository Strategy No single bio-repository can safely conserve biological diversity and associated traditional knowledge, as well as intellectual property rights of traditional owners and national governments. Biodiversity Repository Strategy Local and national herbaria Seedbanks and germplasm collections In-situ and ex-situ living collections / gardens DNA banks and tissue culture collections Documentation, publication and repatriation of local traditional knowledge рақмет сізге Thank you