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International Plant Genetic Resources Institute - An international non-profit organization devoted to the conservation and promotion of agricultural biodiversity. Site includes information about genetic resources conservation and use.
Inquiries into Conservation Genetics - Created as course work by students studying conservation genetics in Biology.
Introduction to Conservation Genetics - Overview for a text book for undergraduate and graduate students on the genetic principles and practices involved in conservation.
The Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics - Applies molecular biology techniques to the conservation and exploitation of plant genetic resources.
Host Plant Resistance and Conservation of Genetic Diversity - Conserving agricultural genetic diversity.
World Resources Institute: Genetic Diversity - The variation within species which allows populations to adapt to changes in climate and other local environmental conditions.
A General Discussion on the Conservation and Sustainable Development of Crop Genetic Resources - A group paper submitted by Ann Marie Kennedy, Derek Kauneckis, Susan Borowitz and Karri Winn in March 1997.

Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher - Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (born 1940) is an Ethiopian who won the Right Livelihood Award in 2000 "for his exemplary work to safeguard biodiversity and the traditional rights of farmers and communities to their genetic resources."
Conservation genetics - Conservation genetics is a science that aims to apply genetic methods to the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biodiversity. Researchers involved in conservation genetics come from a variety of fields including population genetics, molecular ecology and biology, evolutionary biology, and systematics.
Wildland - Wildlands are areas of land where plants and animals exist free of human interference. Ecologists assert that wildlands promote biodiversity, that they preserve historic genetic traits and that they provide habitat for wild flora and fauna that may be difficult to recreate in zoos, arboretums or laboratories.
Ape extinction - Ape extinction, particularly great ape extinction, is one of the most widely held biodiversity concerns. Recent primate extinctions (notably that of Miss Waldron's red colobus) after a long period of no such losses, and the rise of the African bushmeat trade, have sparked concerns that human beings may be eliminating their nearest genetic and social relatives.