Conservation Efforts by Private Sector, Plantation Crops, Seed Savers Exchange, Ex Situ Conservation

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	Conservation Efforts by Private Sector -The preservation of diversity (particularly of endangered plants, plantation crops and industrial crops) is not solely the domain of large national and international programmes.
In recent years several organizations collectively called Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), 'Seed Savers Exchange', and industries (e.g. community and regional seed banks or gene banks) have emerged to support and expand local efforts on global biodiversity conservation. In many cases, they link traditional farmer with ex situ conservation programmes. 'Seed Savers Exchange conserves and exchanges over 5000 native varieties. Ex. situ conservation of crops like sugarcane, rubber, oil palm, pineapple, etc is also done by industries. Farmers also help in ex-situ conservation of forest trees and fruit trees through practice of agroforestry, which is facilitated and encouraged by ICRAF (International Centre for Research on Agroforestry).