Plant Conservation in Latvia

National Red Data Books

Red Data Book of the Latvian SSR. V. Aigare, G. Andru_aitis, J. Lipsbergs, I. Lodzi_a & L. Tabaka. 1985. Zint_tne Publishing House, Riga.

See also Red Data Book of the Baltic Region. Part 1. T. Ingelög, R. Anderson & M. Tjernberg (Eds), 1993. Swedish Threatened Species Unit, Uppsala, Sweden. Includes threatened vascular plants from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany and Denmark.

Inventarizatsiya okhranyaemykh i redkikh vidov rastenii v Latviiskoi SSR [Inventory of protected and rare species of plants in the Latvian SSR.] G.T. Abele, 1978. Institut Biologii, Akademiya Nauk Latviiskoi SSR, Riga. Anything more recent?

Latvijas retas un aizsargajamas sunas. A.A. Abolina. 1994. LU Ekologiska Centra Apgads “VIDE”, Riga. 24 pp. Covers 1 (out of 2) hornworts, 39 (out of 111) liverworts and 163 (out of 485) mosses.

Plant Conservation Programmes

Key Institutions

Acknowledgement

Based on material prepared by Hugh Synge for the Council of Europe, 1999-2000, with information and help from Llona Jepsena, Latvia.