“…Following the justification and logic of the project at the international and national level presented in the introductory part of this paper, we can understand the sustainability of reporting on the state of FGR in Serbia� The results of the FGR research, compiled in the country report, represent the starting point for the implementation of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals and activities� Graph 1. Key country priorities for the conservation of forest genetic resources in the Republic of Serbia Part 1: Differences in the perception of the benefits of FGR in Serbia require a species-specific approach to forest management and the implementation of conservation methods� Part 2: The major causes of forest cover loss are illegal and unplanned logging, as well as increased forest dieback due to extreme weather events, fires, and pest and disease outbreaks� The factors that increase the area of other wooded lands in Serbia are illegal logging and excessive exploitation, habitat loss and fragmentation, forest fires, natural disasters, high nature value farming, and climate change� The Republic of Serbia is one of the six European and 153 world centers of biological diversity (Šijačić-Nikolić, Milovanović, 2010Šijačić-Nikolić et al�, 2014Šijačić-Nikolić et al�, , 2014a� The accurate number of species in the growing stock of the Republic of Serbia will be assessed only after the latest forest inventory has been completed� Only then it will be possible to define trends in the number of individual species� Obviously, disadvantageous past actions have caused serious disturbances in natural ecosystems� They have gradually led to the disappearance or reduction in the number of some species of trees and shrubs, and their habitats have been destroyed or reduced to extremely small areas� The assessment of intraspecific variability of forest trees in Serbia has been performed for the most economically-important species, such as beech -Fagus sylvatica L� (Šijačić-Nikolić et al, , 2012(Šijačić-Nikolić et al, , 2013I ve t i ć , 2009, 2019S to j n i ć et al�, 2010Stojnić, 2013;Nonić et al, 2015Nonić et al, , 2017cNonić et al, , 2019 (Lučić et al�, 2010(Lučić et al�, , 2011(Lučić et al�, , 2011a(Lučić et al�, , 2011bLučić, 2011, etc�), black pine -Pinus nigra JF Arnold (Lučić et al�, 2008(Lučić et al�, , 2010, silver fir -Abies alba Mill� Po p o v i ć et al�, 2017, 2019, etc�), and other species, primarily to define the region of provenance� Investigations of intraspecific variability were also performed for species important from the aspect of conservation and directed utilization of ...…”