In order to protect landraces of crop plant and their wild relatives, the National Centre for Plant Genetic Resources in cooperation with others institutions conducted a collecting mission on the Crimea territory in 2005. In total, 250 accessions, mainly old varieties, landraces, fruit trees, medicinal and ornamental plants, spices and wild growing crop plants were collected. During the expedition, accessions were obtained from local farmers, local markets and gathered from the wild. Special attention should be paid to vegetables collected in Tatarian villages and accessions of old varieties of fruit tries, deriving from Tatarian orchards. In Crimea many interesting wild growing species, such as cereals relatives, ornamental plants from many genera (Asphodeline, Dianthus, Muscari, Malva, Stipa), pulses and grasses were also collected.
Within 1999-2005 the Botanical Garden IHAR in Bydgoszcz gained the genetic resources in the course of 12 local and foreign collecting missions. 4503 seed samples were gathered, 51.7% of that constituted the ecotypes of grasses. 2822 the local samples originated mainly from grasslands. About 48% samples gathered during foreign collecting missions originated from the waste lands. During the expeditions, an attention was paid to the necessity of protecting endangered plant posts, such as raised peatland Puścizna Mała, exposed to damages resulting from exploitation. In order to preserve the vegetation occurring on the terrain of some nature reservations it is indispensable to undertake an extensive usage as the meadows or pastures.