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Section 5ReferencesFor IPA presentations at the PlantaEuropa IV Conference, 2004, please go to(www.nerium.net/plantaeuropa/Submissions.htm or www.nerium.net/plantaeuropa/OralPresentations.htm)Anna Asatryan: Important Plant Areas inArmenia: research for conservation.Vileta Atienza: Lichen data as a contributionto the identification of IPAs in the ValencianCommunity.Teresa Gil Gil: Important Plant Areas inNavarra Region.Eszther Illyes: An introduction to thePannonian habitats and flora and the IPAprogramme in Hungary.Pérez-Rovira P. et al: The micro-reservesnetwork as a preliminary approach to IPAselection in the Valencian Community.Radford, E.: IPAs go global.Del Valle E. et al: Important areas for theSpanish endangered flora.For information on the South AfricanNational Biodiversity Institute – formerhosts of SABONET (www.nbi.ac.za)For information on the ASEAN RegionalNetwork for Biodiversity Conservation(www.arcbc.org)For information on the New ZealandPlant Conservation Network(www.nzpcn.org.nz)For general information on IPA projects indifferent countries (www.plantlife.org.uk)Evans, S., Marren, P. & Harper, M., 2002,Important Fungus Areas: a provisionalassessment of the best sites for fungi in theUnited Kingdom. Plantlife,Association ofBritish Fungus Groups, British MycologicalSociety.Özhatay, N., Byfield,A.,Atay, S., 2003,Türkiye’nin Önemli Bitki Alanlari (IPAs inTurkey).WWF Türkiye (Dogul HayatiKoruma Vakfi), IstanbulIPA projects in Europe and otherparts of the worldCentral and eastern EuropeAs well as the projects detailed above there are developing IPA projects or interest instarting IPA projects in several other countries. In Hungary, a project to identify IPAs isbeing developed by researchers at Eötvös Loránd University and the RegionalEnvironmental Centre (REC). In Armenia, a project to collate and analyse existing datahas been carried out at the Institute of Botany. Researchers in Ukraine at the Institute ofBotany, Kyiv, have made an assessment of plant conservation in protected areas.Individuals and organisations in Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova have expressedtheir interest in developing IPA projects.Other parts of EuropeTurkey was the first country anywhere in the world to complete its IPA identification.The project was carried out by the NGO Dogal Hayati Koruma Demegi (DHKD), theInstitute of Botany, the University of Istanbul, and Flora and Fauna International and theresults published by WWF Turkey. Researchers at the Finnish Environment Institute havebegun work on projects to identify important fungi and plant areas in Finland. In the UKthe national IPA team, coordinated by Plantlife International, includes specialists from awide range of organisations including the state agencies and the specialist societies.Projects to identify Important Fungus Areas and Important Stonewort Areas in the UKhave already been completed. In Spain several research projects into IPAs in differentregions have begun, including the Valencia and Navarra regions.In June 2003, the IUCN Centre of Mediterranean Cooperation, Planta Europa andPlantlife International coordinated an IPA workshop with participants from Croatia,Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Gibraltar, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco and Spain. Since then, anational IPA workshop has been held in Morocco, where 53 preliminary IPAs wereidentified, and a proposal for a national IPA project has been developed in Lebanon.Other parts of the worldIn May 2004, SABONET, the Southern Africa Botanical Network, organised a regionalIPA workshop for seven countries (Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,Zambia and Zimbabwe). Subsequently, national IPA workshops were carried out inMozambique and Namibia. Using existing data, 28 preliminary IPAs have been identifiedin Mozambique and 39 in Namibia. In South Africa, IPA team members are in the processof analysing considerable amounts of existing plant data in order to select IPAs.The ASEAN network in south east Asia has also begun the process of discussing IPAprojects at a regional level with representatives from nine countries (Brunei, Cambodia,Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore,Thailand,Vietnam).The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network is developing a strategy forimplementing IPAs and the other targets of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.Stewart, N. F. 2004, Important StonewortAreas, An assessment of the best areas forstoneworts in the United Kingdom. PlantlifeInternational, Salisbury, U.K.78