What is an in situ collection?
In situ conservation relates to preservation of organisms in their natural environment rather than in genebanks (see what is an ex situ collection ?’). A typical examples of an in situ collection in the context of GRFA would be live animals in a breeding herd. In situ collection also relates to the inventories of unimproved species such as Crop Wild Relatives growing either in farmed or wild environments, protected areas, or sites of special scientific interest, and Landraces growing in farmed environments.
