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Affiliated networks

European Council for the Conservation of Fungi (ECCF)
- Stimulate research on changes in the mycoflora in their natural habitats
- Promote international co-operation in research, monitoring, programmes and publications
- Stress the importance of fungi and the necessity of their conservation

European Committee for Conservation of Bryophytes (ECCB)
- Promote international co-operation in research, monitoring, programmes and publications
- Red Listing
- Promote a project similar to IPA on Bryophytes
- Public awareness raising

Albania

Planta Europa currently has no member in Albania.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Albania, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Armenia

NGO Nature Rights Protection, Yerevan
- Environmental research
- Public awareness raising
- Co-operation in projects of the Ministry of Nature Protection

Austria

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science, Department of Integrative Biology, Institute of Botany, Vienna
- Research and teaching on botany, plus general natural sciences

Azerbaijan

Planta Europa currently has no member in Azerbaijan.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Azerbaijan, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Belarus

V.F.Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the National Academy of Science of Belarus, Minsk
- Research on plant species and biodiversity
- Important Plant Areas of Belarus

Belgium

Institute of Nature Conservation, Brussels
- Research on the environment and nature conservation

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Planta Europa currently has no member in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Bulgaria

University of Forestry, Sofia
- Research on threatened and endemic plants species

Croatia

Department of Botany, University of Zagreb
- Plant conservation research
- Botanical education and taxonomy

Cyprus

Planta Europa currently has no member in Cyprus.

Czech Republic

Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection, Prague
- Governmental agency
- Provides technical support on: ecological stability, conservation and restoration of species, population ecology, habitats and ecosystems

Bohemian Switzerland National Park Administration, Krasna Lipa
- Nature conservation
- Sustainable development
- Public awareness raising

Denmark

Planta Europa currently has no member in Denmark.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Denmark, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Estonia

Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu
- Research on threatened species, biodiversity, land use, and environment and landscape conservation

Finland

Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki
- Environmental research
- National environmental information centre (SYKE)

Metsähallitus, Natural Heritage Services, Kuusamo FYRO
- Governmental agency for protected areas
-
Nature protection

France

Conservatoire Botanique Nationale Mediterranean de Porquerolles, Hyčres
- Ex situ conservation

La Garance Voyageuse, Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
- Information dissemination on the conservation of wild species and fungi

NOMAD Recherche et Soutien International (NOMAD Research and International Aid), Toulouse
- Health, traditions and traditional medical resources, including medicinal plants
Newsletter Winter 2005

European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), Paris
- European co-operation in plant protection in Europe and the Mediterranean
- Invasive Alien Species
Newsletter Summer 2006

Georgia

Planta Europa currently has no member in Georgia

Germany

Botanic Garden of the University of Potsdam
- Research and teaching on biodiversity, conservation and ecological relations

Nature Conservation Union Germany (NABU), Bonn
- Non governmental organisation for nature conservation

Bundesamt fuer Naturschutz BfN (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation)
- Governmental agency for nature conservation in Germany

Verband Botanischer Gärten e.V. (Botanic Gardens Association)
- Represents Botanic Gardens in German speaking countries (including Austria and Switzerland)

Greece

Department of Botany, Plant Ecology and Ecosystem Management, University of Patras
- Research on vegetation ecology, and plant community and dynamics
- Natural areas management
- Public awareness raising and education

Flowers of Crete
- Promoting awareness amongst tourists and residents of the need to protect habitats and endemic flowers

Park for the Preservation of Flora and Fauna of Crete
- Establishing a botanical garden with native flora of Crete
- Ethobotanical research in Crete
- Aromatic, medicinal, dye and other goups of economically or culturally valuable plants
- Taxonomy of wild plants
- Research for the identification of invasive plants in Crete

Orthodox Academy of Crete, Institute of Theology and Ecology and Herbarium
- Cretan Herbarium of J. Zaffran Project
- Organization and promotion of conferences
- Research and environmental education activities

Balkan Botanikal Garden of Kroussia
- Important Plant Areas process
- WUC awareness raising campaign

Hungary

Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Vácrátót
- Research on plant communities, conservation biology, restoration ecology, and biodiversity
- Ex-situ conservation

Iceland

Planta Europa currently has no member in Iceland.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Iceland, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Italy

Botanical Garden, University of Siena
- Conservation of indigenous species
- Taxonomy and capacity building

Department of Botany and Plant Ecology, University of Sassari
- Research on botany and plant ecology

Italian Botanical Society, Florence
- Research on plant sciences and conservation
- Public awareness raising

Trento Natural History Museum
- Seed bank management
- Plant conservation

Operative Centre for the Environmental Protection and Restoration (CODRA), Pignola
- National centre for the study and conservation of forest biodiversity
Newsletter Summer 2006

Inter-University research centre "Biodivesity, plant sociology and landscape ecology" - University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Conservation of biodiversity at species, community and landscape scale
- Landscape planning and management
- Phytosociology and geosinphytosociology studies, potential natural vegetation assessment.
- National Team for Important Plant Areas
- First contribute to the census of exotic flora in Italy

Department of Botany, University of Catania
- Plant science research
- Biodiversity in situ and ex situ conservation
- Seed bank management
- Public awareness raising

Ireland

Planta Europa currently has no member in Ireland.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Ireland, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Latvia

Latvian Fund for Nature (Latvijas Dabas fonds)
- Biodiversity conservation and research
- Nature protection
- Public awareness raising
Newsletter Winter 2005

Lithuania

Botanical Garden, Siauliai University
- Research on biodiversity and conservation
- In-situ and ex-situ plant conservation

Luxembourg

Musée national d'histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History), Luxembourg
- Wake Up Call for Plant Conservation
- In-situ and ex-situ plant conservation

Macedonia

Macedonian Ecological Society, Skopje
- Important Plant Areas programme

Malta

Planta Europa currently has no member in Malta.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Malta, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Moldova

Department of Geobotany and Forestry, Botanical Garden (Institute), Chisinau
- Research on biodiversity and conservation
- Research on native plants

Montenegro

Society "Green Forest"
- Natural values of National Park "Lovcen", biodiversity and turistic information
- Important Plant Areas in Montenegro

The Netherlands

Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Hague
- International nature policy

FLORON Foundation (Stichting FLORON), Leiden
- Management of the native plants database
- Research, inventories, surveys, monitoring
- Endangered species

Stichting Rubicon
-Promotion the co-existence of biodiversity and rural communities through sustainable development, -policy and field projects.
- Campaings on conservation of globally threatened species
- Important Plant Areas
- WUC awareness raising campaign
- IPANET Project with DHKD (Turkey)

Norway

Directorate for Nature Management, Trondheim
- Conservation of biodiversity
- Sustainable use of wild plants

Poland

Wladyslaw Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow
- Botanical research and taxonomy

Portugal

Portuguese Association of Phytosociology (ALFA), Lisbon
- Biodiversity research

Romania

Association of Botanic Gardens, Bucharest
- Ex-situ conservation
- Research to support in-situ conservation

Russia

Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden Institute, Apatity
- Biodiversity research

Laboratory of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Rostov State University
- Research in botany and related areas

Botanical Garden, Moscow State University
- Research on rare plants
- In situ and ex situ conservation
- Red books

Partnership for Zapovedniks
- Protected areas
- Ecological monitoring

Siberian Environmental Centre, Novosibirsk
- Plant conservation
- Biodiversity research
- Protected areas
- A awareness raising

Serbia

Planta Europa currently has no member in Serbia.
If you represent an organisation there, are able to establish a link, or are interested in plant conservation in Serbia, please get in touch with the Planta Europa secretariat.

Slovakia

Institute of Landscape Ecology, Bratislava
- Research on ecology, landscapes and biodiversity
- Management of protected areas
- Ecological planning

Botanic Department, Comenius University, Bratislava
- Research on endangered species
- Red Listing
- Conservation and restoration
- Education and capacity building in nature sciences

Slovenia

Environment Agency, Ljubljana
- Administrative and technical nature conservation

Spain

Botanical Garden, University of Valencia
- Research
- Ex-situ conservation
- Public awareness raising

Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Medi Ambient, Valencia
- Administration of environmental issues: conservation, restoration, education and sustainable development
- Plant micro-reserves

Jardín Botánico Atlántico de Gijón (JBA), Gijón
- Ex-situ conservation of Atlantic plants
- Public awareness raising

Fundacion Enrique Montoliu (FUNDEM), Valencia
- Protection of endangered species and promotion of Mediterranean native species for gardening.
- Public awareness raising.

- Important Plant Areas

Sweden

ArtDatabanken, Swedish Species Information Centre, Uppsala
- Focal point for information on threatened species and biodiversity in Sweden
- Plant Red Listing

Svenska Botaniska Föreningen
- Plant conservation
- Non governmental organisation
- Public awareness raising
Newsletter Summer 2006

Switzerland

Swiss Commission for Wild Plants Conservation, Nyon
- Promote protection of the Swiss Flora
- Plant conservation
- Invasive Alien Species

Turkey

Dogal Hayati Koruma Dernegi (DHKD), The Society for the Protection of Nature
- Identification and protection of IPAs
- Awareness raising projects on the topic of IPAs and IPA protection; seminars, public presentations, publiciations, etc.
- Has established a model of Indigenous Propagation of Threatened Turkish Bulbous Plants as a nature conservation and rural development project.
- Worked on the wild medicinal plants and their trade in Turkey.

Ukraine

Institute of Hydrobiology, Kiev
- Research on fresh water ecology and ecosystems, including water plants and plant communities

Institute of Botany, Kiev
- Research on botany, ecology and conservation

National Botanic Garden, Kiev
- In-situ and ex-situ conservation of endemic, relict, rare and endangered species

O.V. Fomin Botanical Garden of Taras Schevchenko University of Kiev
- Research of plant diversity; Ex situ and in situ plant conservation, Red Listing, Ecological monitoring and Education and capacity building in nature sciences

United Kingdom

Countryside Council for Wales
- Governmental statutory agency on sustaining the environment in Wales

Natural England
- Agency for nature protection and conservation in England

Plantlife International
- Non governmental organisation
- Promote plant conservation through: Species and habitats conservation, nature reserves, community involvement and campaigning for wild plants
- Hosts the secretariat of Planta Europa

Scottish Natural Heritage
- Governmental agency for Natural Heritage in Scotland
Newsletter Winter 2005

Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
- Forum for UK country agencies to act jointly in conservation
- Internatonal cooperation and national implementation of conservation legislation

Uzbekistan

Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, Tashkent
- Plant biodiversity research
- Plant conservation
- Sustainable use of wild plants, including medicinal plants

Uzbekistan Zoological Society, Tashkent
- Biodiversity conservation
- Ecological education
- Promote the IPA project in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

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