Forestry Research Institute Of Nigeria (FRIN): efforts towards ex-situ conservation and sustainable utilization of timber and flora species in Nigeria

摘要

In-situ conservation is the planned protective management of flora and fauna resources, to retain natural balance, diversity and evolutionary change in their natural environment. It is a protective measure taken, to prevent the loss of genetic diversity of a species, to save the species from extinction, and protect their specific ecosystems or niches from damage thus promoting their existence and sustained utilization. Ex-situ conservation on the other hand indicates the extraction of these plants for conservation in herb gardens. This lias always been the system employed by native herbalist and various traditional groves in Africa, it's a system known more protective of this germplasm. The Pharmacy Flora Colony (FRIN herbal garden) and indigenous economic trees plantations in FRIN are one of these