Index 



Action Plan on Conserving Biological Diversity in 



Developing Countries, 29, 290-291 

 Africa, 25, 125, 302 

 agricultural development in, 122 

 biological diversity in, 39, 41, 49 

 diversity loss in, 75, 79 

 NGOs in, 14 



threatened species in, 75 

 African Development Bank, 294 

 Agency for International Development, U.S. (AID), 

 27, 243-244 

 Action Plan on Conserving Biological Diversity in 



Developing Countries, 29, 290-291 

 Biden-Pell grants' use by, 15 

 biological diversity funding for, 27, 28-29, 31-32 

 breed resource assessment by, 160 

 Bureau of Program and Policy Coordination, 29, 



292 

 Bureau of Science and Technology, 29, 293 

 development assistance and, 289-294, 297, 298, 302, 



304, 290 

 environmental expertise in, 29-31, 293-294 

 natural resource assessments development by, 300 

 Office of Forestry, Natural Resources, and the En- 

 vironment of, 292 

 preservation approach to conservation and, 122, 



129 

 resource degradation observations by, 67-68 

 Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, 222, 233 

 Agricultural Research Service (ARS). 222, 233, 235, 

 242 

 budget of, 238 



funding by, 16, 195, 196, 236 

 germplasm conservation by, 19 

 interpretation of Research and Marketing Act by, 



10-11 

 Plant Protection and Quarantine facilities of, 177 

 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act 



of 1954, proposed amending of, 31-32 

 Agriculture 

 breeding, 52-53, 138-139, 144, 149-156, 229, 156 

 diversity loss caused by, 5, 66, 75-77, 78-79, 82-83, 



94 

 diversity loss' effect on, 4, 67, 76-78, 94 

 diversity maintenance's value to, 4, 37, 47-48, 49-53 

 economics of biological diversity to, 49-50, 76 

 genetic diversity for, 121-122, 159-161, 305 

 micro-organisms' use in, 206 

 offsite maintenance progams for, 169-171, 186, 



232-241, 174 

 preservation approach to conservation in, 123 

 research for. 187, 192-195, 196, 305 

 agroecosystems, 67, 79 



maintaining, 90, 94 

 Alaska, 46, 47 



Amboseli game reserve (Kenya), 297 

 American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquar- 

 iums (AAZPA), 241, 274 

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American Minor Breeds Conservancy (AMBC), 143, 



239 

 American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), 210, 211, 



244 

 Angola, 80 

 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), 



146, 147, 161, 196, 244-245 

 Antarctica, 117, 172 

 Arctic, 46, 50 

 Argentina 



personnel training in, 302 



seed storage in, 172 

 Arizona, 46 



agricultural diversity in, 122 



diversity loss in, 66, 67 



protected area in, 115 

 Army Corps of Engineers, U.S., 232 



wetlands value estimate by, 5, 40-41 

 Arnold Arboretum (Harvard University), 173, 184, 



237 

 artificial insemination (A. I.), 152 



organizations, 240 

 Asia, 25, 47, 80 



agricultural breeding in, 53, 160 



domestic animal monitoring in, 143 



quarantine facilities in, 147 

 Asian Development Bank, 24 



development assistance funding by, 294-295 

 Assessing Biological Diversity in the United States: 



Data Considerations, 127 

 Association Latinoamericana de Produccion Animal 



(Venezuela), 143, 301 

 Audubon Society, 119 

 Australia, 74, 125 

 azonal ecosystems, 103, 111 



Bangladesh, 74 



Battelle-Kettering Laboratory (Ohio), 209, 244 



Belgium, 303 



Biden-Pell matching grants, 15 



biological resources, components of diveristy in, 38 



biosphere reserves, cluster concept for, 225-226, 118 



biotechnology, 4 



in developing countries, 305 



micro-organisms' use in, 209, 206 



plant improvement through, 191-194, 196 



seed collection and, 185-187 

 Birmingham, University of (UK), 303 

 Black Mesa (Arizona), 46 

 Bolivia, 301 

 Bonn Convention, 256 

 Borlaug, Norman, 192 

 Botanical Gardens Conservation Coordinating Body 



(BGCCB), 173, 273 

 Botanic Garden Conservation Strategy, 273 

 Botswana, 50, 51, 54 

 Brazil 



conservation education in, 297 



mentioned in tfie boxes. 



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