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regions of developing countries are given priority as they are
subjected to high human and biotic stress.
 Efforts are done to explore, use and conserve gene resources
of forest trees. In this regard increased attention has been paid
to in situ conservation as a desirable complement to various
forms of ex situ conservation.
 It disseminates the information on forest tree seed supplies,
seed collection, handling, storage, testing and certification. The
organization and results of international provenance trials and
various aspects of the conservation and use of genetic
resources, through a newsletter, Forest Genetic Resources
Information.

3) The International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR)

 The headquarters is in Rome (Italy).
 It is an international scientific centre of the Consultative
Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR).
 It is working on agricultural crops, forest species, particularly
fuel wood species, for their conservation and improvement.

4) International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources (IUCN)

 Its headquarters is in Gland, Switzerland.
 It is a unique international agency as it is constituted with
both governmental and non-governmental membership.

 It is concerned with species level conservation and has paid
increasing attention to plant genetic resources.
 It produces the IUCN plant Red data book, a series that gives
detailed case histories on rare and threatened plants in all parts
of the world; for each species, data are given on conservation
status, threats to survival, distribution and habit, together with
a short description and an evaluation of its interest or potential
value to humankind.
 It has a World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC)
located at Cambridge, UK for data storage and processing and
also provides information on international trade in endangered
plants and animals.

5) International Union of Forestry Research Organization (IUFRO)

 Its headquarters is situated in Vienna, Austria.
 It coordinates and assists scientists participating in
programmes. It has placed strong emphasis on industrial
species and works on provenance testing, progeny testing and
breeding of specific species. It is also working on conservation
and on population genetics for the species of temperate zone