Plant Conservation in
Albania
National Red Data Books

Preliminary Red List of Fungi in the Republic of Macedonia. M. Karadelev. 2000. Pp. 5. Newsletter 10,
Europaen Council for the Conservation of Fungi. Includes 67 potentially endangered Basidiomycetes species.

A Red List of Threatened Plants has not been prepared yet.

Floras

Flora na Republika Makedonija [Flora of the Republic of Macedonia]. 5 vols. K. Micevski. 1985-2001. Pp. 1422. Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje.

Vegetation

 

Plant Conservation Programmes

 

Key Institutions

Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Drezdenska 52, MK-1000 Skopje.

Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, bul. Krste Misirkov num.2, P.O.Box 428, MK-1000 Skopje

Institute of Botany at the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, bul. Krste Misirkov bb, MK-1000 Skopje.

DEM-The Ecologist's Movement of Macedonia, Vasil Gjorgov 39, baraka 6, MK-1000 Skopje. (DEM is a national association comprising 29 local environmental NGOs and 17 associated members, it is the Macedonian partner of Friends of the Earth).

Other useful information

The website of the Biodiversity CHM-Macedonia provides information on biodiversity strategies, size of flora and threatened species.

References cited

Country study for biodiversity of the Republic of Macedonia (First national report). 2003. Pp. 217. Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Skopje. (The study can be downloaded as pdf- file on the Biodiversity CHM-Macedonia website.)

Acknowledgement

Prepared in November 2005.

Map of Europe

Vascular plants: c. 3350 species
Mosses: 349
Lichens: c. 340
Fungi: c. 1250
Algae: 1580.

117 higher plant species and 87 Algae species are endemic in the FYRO Macedonia.

Source: Country study for biodiversity of the Republic of Macedonia (cited below).

Threatened spp Extinct: 1
Extinct/Endangered: 2
Endangered: 0
Vulnerable: 1
Rare: 61
Indeterminate: 5
Total Threatened: 70.

Source: 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 1998. (Table 5.)

Threatened spp Vascular plants: 364 species
Mosses: 28
Fungi: 67
Lichens: 12
Algae: 74.

Source: http://www.moe.gov.
mk/CHM/def7.asp


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