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THE First status report on the conservation of farm animal genetic resources (AnGR) in the Nordics
40 years of Nordic collaboration in the conservation of Animal Genetic Resources
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION
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FOREWORD
1. BACKGROUND
2. POSITIVE USES OF THE NATIVE BREEDS
2.1 Social acceptance
2.2 Healthy and robust animals that can help maintain cultural biotopes and local biodiversity
2.3 Commercial values of unique characteristics related to production
3. CONSERVATION
3.1 External pressures influencing live populations
3.2 Loss of genetic variation influencing live populations
4. THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE NORDIC NATIVE BREEDS
4.1 Materials and methods
4.2 The Nordic native breeds – overall status
4.3 Country-wise risk status of the Nordic native breeds
4.4 Nordic transboundary breeds
4.5 Nordic dogs and cats
4.6 Extinct Nordic breeds
4.7 The current status of estimating and recording inbreeding and effective population sizes in the Nordics
5. IMPORTANT STORIES OF CONSERVATION
5.1 Denmark
5.2 Finland
5.3 Iceland
5.4 The Faroe Islands
5.5. Norway
5.6 Sweden
6. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION