european forest genetic resources programme

Related Information

News

CRGF has produced a 4-pages leaflet as a set of recommendations for the preservation and use of forest genetic resources in the context of climate change

English version [PDF]

French version [PDF]

Publications

Impact of silviculture on the genetic diversity of trees (a broad literature review)

Effets des interventions sylvicoles sur la diversité génétique des arbres forestiers [PDF]

The black Poplar in the Loire valley

 

Peuplier noir en Loire [PDF]

The European White Elm in the Loire valley

 

L'Orme lisse en Loire [PDF]

Contact

For additional information, please contact  François  Lefèvre or  Eric Collin


France

National Coordinator

François Lefèvre
INRA - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
Domaine St Paul, Site Agroparc,
Avignon cedex 9
email email

Experts contributing to EUFORGEN working groups

Eric Collin, (CEMAGREF, U.R. Ecosystème Forestiers, Nogent-sur-Vernisson), Alexis Ducousso, (Genetic team UMR BIOGECO, INRA, Cestas cedex), Bruno Fady, (INRA - Unité de Recherches 'Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes', Avignon cedex 9)

EUFGIS Focal Point

Eric Collin, (CEMAGREF, U.R. Ecosystème Forestiers, Nogent-sur-Vernisson)

Management of forest genetic resources in France

Since 1989, France has created a national programme for conserving forest tree genetic resources. It is steered by the National Commission of Forest Genetic Resources (CRGF) which involves central administration, research, public and private forest managers, NGOs. The CRGF proposes the national programme's major guidelines and priorities to the Ministry in charge of Forests. Since 2006, this programme is also part of the National Strategy for Biodiversity.

CRGF (President: F. Lefèvre; Secretary: E. Collin) has created three working groups:

  • in situ conservation and impact of silviculture on the genetic resources (coord. B. Fady & A. Valadon)
  • ex situ conservation and use of the collections (coord. E. Collin & M. Villar)
  • conservation of scattered species (coord. N. Frascaria-Lacoste, G. Largier & B. Musch)

Further information

French policy and activities for the conservation of FGR - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of France
http://agriculture.gouv.fr/sections/thematiques/foret-bois/conservation-ressources (French)
http://www.brg.prd.fr/brg/pages/les_rg_en_france/rgv_arbresForestiers.php  (French)
http://www.brg.prd.fr/brg/pages/les_rg_en_france/rgv_Bd_an.php (English)

French policy and activities for forest reproductive material (FRM) - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of France
http://agriculture.gouv.fr/sections/thematiques/foret-bois/graines-et-plants-forestiers (French)

French Strategy for Biodiversity - Forestry Plan - Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Seas
http://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/Les-plans-d-action-de-la-strategie,9171.html (French) More publications in French are available at:
http://www.orleans.inra.fr/orleans/les_unites/ur_agpf
/conservatoire_genetique_de_l_onf/publications_recentes
Those articles include a general presentation of the in situ networks of the CRGF (Valadon & Musch 2007) and papers devoted to specific conservation networks (Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies, Abies alba, Fagus sylvatica and Quercus petraea)