A. Species
Scientific name: Galanthus elwesii
Common name(s): Snowdrop, Kardelen
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Data Deficient
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Turkey
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: National Level
Name/Details of location: Turkey
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 1984
End Year: 2007
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Type of use: Extractive
Practice of use: Gathering/Cutting/Collecting terrestrial plants and fungi or their products from the wild
Lethal or non-lethal: Non-Lethal
Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism
Purpose(s) of end use: Keeping/companionship/display
Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community)
Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people and National / local private sector
G. Information about the sustainability of use
Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: This NDF Case study
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Annual visual inspections conducted on harvested populations in Turkey indicate that Galanthus elwesii has not declined in these regions.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: This NDF Case study
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Given ecological sustainability and quota regulations this export trade in bulbs from Turkey (set at 8 million bulbs / year) is sustainable and supports 4 export companies supplied by an interim warehouse.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: This NDF Case study
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Given ecological sustainability, the lifestyles of those villagers who harvest snowdrop bulbs or work in the warehouse of factories should be sustainable. Policies are intended to support local communities that collect bulbs, providing a highly important livelihood and source of cash income in rural areas.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
• Further research into the ecology and population dynamics of Galanthus elwesii is required within Turkey. • Guidelines on the type of work that should be carried out to produce robust NDF’s for geophytes would greatly assist in the planning of future work. • A manual and training on producing NDF’s for geophytes would be of major benefit to scientific authorities. • The use of population modelling should be explored to assist in population sampling, quota setting and population monitoring.
Record source
Information about the record source: grey_lit
Date of publication/issue/production: 2008-01-01T00:00:00+0000
Source Reference(s):
ALANTHUS ELWESII HOOK. F., IN TURKEY (2008).
By Sirri Yüzbasiogˇlu
Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
NDF WORKSHOP CASE STUDIES
WG 4 – Geophytes and Epiphytes
CASE STUDY 7
Galanthus elwesii
Country – TURQUIA
Date of record entry: 2023-10-04