APPENDICES

Appendix 1: list of abbreviations and acronyms

CFO	Chief Forestry Officer
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
IPAL	Integrated Project in Arid Land
MAB	Man and Biosphere
NGO	Non-governmental organization
SADC	Southern African Development Community
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
VDC	Village Development Council

Appendix 2: value and use of important species at national level

Name of species

Value code

Present, future or potential use

Celtis africana

Olea europaea var. africana

Kiggellaria africana

Pittosporum viridiftorum

Ilex mitis

Scolopia mundii

Maytenus hetrophylla

Halleria lucida

Euclea crispa var. crispa

Diospyros lyciodes

Buddleja salvifolia

Grewia occidentalis

Leucosidea sericea

Rhamnus prinoides

Eucalyptus rubida

Eucalyptus stellulata

Eucalyptus nitens

Pinus radiata

Pinus halepensis

Pinus pinaster

Acacia dealbata

Acacia decurrens

Populus canescens

Salix babylonica

Salix fragilis

Schinus molle

Utilization

ag	agroforestry systems
am	amenity, aesthetic, ethical values
co	soil and water conservation
nw	non-wood products (gums, resins, medicines, dyes, tannins, etc.)
fo	food
fd	fodder
po	posts, poles, roundwood
pu	pulp and paper
sh	shade, shelter
ti	timber production
wo	fuelwood, charcoal
xx	other

Value

1. Species of current socio-economic importance and already in breeding programmes or anticipated to be included in breeding programmes

2. Species with clear potential or future value

3. Species of unknown value given present knowledge and technology

Appendix 3: list of priority species for conservation, improvement or seed procurement

Species	End uses				Operations/Activities								Remarks
	W	NW	FW	O	Exploration		Evaluation		Conservation		Germplasm
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Leucosidea sericea			X	X	X	1	1		1
Celtis africana			X	X	X	1	1		1
Rhamnus prinoides			X	X	X	1	1		1
Olea europea subsp africana			X		X	1	1		1
Rhus lancea			X		X	1	1		1
Halleria lucida			X		X	1	1		1
Kiggelaria africana			X		X	1	1		1
Eucalyptus rubida			X					1				1	SO
Eucalyptus nitens			X					1				1	SO
Eucalyptus stellulata			X					1				1	SO
Pinus radiata			X					1				1	SO
Pinus halpensis			X					1				1
Pinus pinaster			X					1				1
Salix fragilis			X	X			1						CLT
Populus canescens			X	X			1						CLT

End uses

1. Industrial wood (logs, sawtimber, construction wood, plywood, chip and particle board, wood pulp etc.)

2. Industrial non-wood products (gums, resins, oils, tannins)

3. Fuelwood, posts, poles (firewood, charcoal, roundwood used on-farms, wood for carving)

4. Other uses, goods and services (food, medicinal use, fodder, land stabilization/amelioration, shade, shelter, environmental values)

Exploration and collection

5. Biological information (natural distribution, taxonomy, genecology, phenology, etc.)

6. Collection of germplasm for evaluation

Evaluation

7. In situ (population studies)

8. Ex situ (provenance and progeny studies)

Conservation

9. In situ

10. Ex situ

Reproductive use

11. Semi-bulk/bulk seedlots, reproductive materials

12. Selection and improvement

Remarks

CLT	Clonal trials
SO	Seed orchard

Rating

For columns 1-4: as appropriate

For columns 5-11:

1. Highest priority, action should start, or be continued, with immediate effect
2. Prompt action recommended, action should start within next two biennia
3. Action required in the next five years

Appendix 4: management and location of genetic resources, by natural site species

Species	Number of trees by population
Species	Reserve natural parks	Stands in situ ex situ	Protected natural stands	Protected planted stands	Villages, fields, homesteads	Experimental fields, trials
Eucalyptus rubida						2 provenances
Eucalyptus stellulata						2 provenances
Eucalyptus nitens						5 provenances
Leucosidea sericea		In situ 2	>1 000*
Pinus radiata						2 provenances
Pinus halpensis
Pinus pinaster
Salix babylonica					>1 000*
Salix fragilis					>1 000*

* individual trees per zone

Appendix 5: level of security and nature of threats to the integrity of genetic resources of priority species

Species

Protected in parks

Managed for

Unmanaged

Threats and causes

Degree of security

Soil, water protection

Wood, nw production

Grazing animal

Felled

Grazed

Environmental factors

Clear felling

Overgrazing

Development infrastructure

Other reasons

Leucosidea

>1 000*

>100*

Rhus lancea

>1 000*

>100*

* individual trees per zone

Level of security

1	implementation/enforcement of regulations probable, and regulations scientifically sound or threat mild/occasional
2, 3, 4	intermediate between 1 and 5.
5	implementation/enforcement of regulations unlikely or threat severe with high probability of genetic degradation or loss