Portal

Conservation

Priority populations, threats and actions for conserving landrace cannabis in situ and ex situ.

Stable Vulnerable Endangered Critical

Priority regions & populations

Places and populations where loss would significantly damage the global landrace genepool.

[Region / population name] – status: Vulnerable / Endangered / Critical; link to the relevant Growing Region, Appellation and representative Accession pages.
[Region / population name] – short note on why it is a priority (e.g. rapid replacement by hybrids, enforcement pressure, climate impacts).
[Region / population name] – note any distinct chemotype / morphology / cultural use that makes this population hard to replace.

Drivers of erosion: legal, economic, agronomic and ecological.

Hybrid replacement – summary of where modern cultivars are displacing farmer-maintained landraces; link to affected regions or fields.
Eradication & enforcement – cases where raids, eradication campaigns or surveillance are pushing traditional growers out; cross-link with Portal:Current_Events.
Environmental change – climate shifts, pests, disease or land-use change that directly threaten known populations.

Concrete steps being taken to document, maintain and return material.

In situ work – farmer support, seed selection, grow-back projects and agreements to keep male plants; link to project or field pages.
Ex situ conservation – seed bank holdings, backups and distribution schemes for specific Accession IDs; indicate where material is stored.
Return & sharing – efforts to return documented material to local growers or to share across farmer networks under fair terms.

How to use this portal

Use this page to surface populations and regions that need attention, not to list every accession. Prioritise cases where loss is plausible within a few generations.
Keep entries brief and link out to the canonical pages: Growing Region, Appellation, Field and Accession records with conservation-related properties.
When a status changes (e.g. from Endangered to Vulnerable), update both the underlying pages and the summary here; archive older notes to subpages such as Portal:Conservation/Archive_2025.