Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservartion Planning version 1.0

The Interactive Toolkit for CWR Conservation Planning places particular emphasis on how national strategic action plans (or national strategies) for CWR conservation can be developed and implemented to help nations worldwide to systematically conserve their vital natural resources. Particular emphasis is placed on: the creation of national CWR checklists, prioritization of taxa for active conservation and creation of priority CWR inventories, collation of taxonomic, ecogeographic, genetic and threat data, diversity (distribution, genetic and ecogeographic) analyses, novel IUCN Red Listing threat assessments, in situ and ex situ gap analyses, climate change analyses of priority CWR, establishment and implementation of complementary in situ and ex situ conservation recommendations, monitoring of conserved diversity and making the critical link between conservation and use, to ensure the conserved resources are sustainably exploited. Each of these ten stages is a key component in developing and implementing a national strategic action plan.