The Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants UPDATE 2017

In 2005, the Mediterranean Islands Plant Specialist Group (IUCN / SSC) published The Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants – Wild plants at the brink of extinction and what is needed to save them. A decade later, the publication has been…

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Elaboration of a beekeeping development project in the Bou Naceur IPA (Morocco)

The Jbel Bou Naceur Important Plant Area (IPA) represents the highest massif of the Middle Atlas with 3340m height. This massif is subjected to both oceanic and continental influences. The site also hosts numerous endemic floristic elements consisting…

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Field work and knowledge acquisition on endemic plants in the High Atlas (Morocco)

The Oriental High Atlas National Park (Morocco) consists of very uneven mountainous massifs with heights ranging from 1600m to more than 3000m. The vascular flora of this National Park, considered as an Important Plant Area (IPA), counts more than 300…

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Identification of Important Plant Areas in Cabo Verde islands

The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, the IUCN/SSC Mediterranean Plant Specialist Group, the INIDA (Instituto Nacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Agrario) and nearly 40 national experts participated in two workshops that took place in October 2016 and May 2017 where…

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Training for ex situ conservation by CARE-MEDIFLORA partners in collaboration with IUCN-Med in progress

Ex situ conservation techniques are not yet sufficiently known in some institutions in the South and East of the Mediterranean. In order to help fill this gap, IUCN-Med as part of the the IPAMed project, in collaboration with…

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Towards a greater use of ex situ conservation techniques

In order to encourage greater use of ex situ conservation techniques, the IPAMed project, in collaboration with the CARE-MEDIFLORA project (Conservation Actions for Threatened Mediterranean Island Flora) offered to representatives…

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Red book of vascular flora of Morocco – Third booklet

The Institut Scientifique team “Flora of Morocco” of  the Mohammed V University of Rabat presents the third booklet of the red book of vascular flora of Morocco.

This booklet dedicated to Asteraceae,…

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A new book dedicated to trees and shrubs of North Africa

Within the project “Conserving wild plants and habitats for people in the South and East Mediterranean (IPA-Med)”, the IUCN – Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation provides support for a new and complete review of the book “Trees and shrubs of…

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First step towards the Algerian network of botanists

As part of the third component of the IPAMed Project «Conserving wild plants and habitats for people in the South and East Mediterranean», a first consulting meeting aiming to create and define the organization of a national network of…

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