Анотация: Animal Genetic Resources are components of biological diversity and are important in meeting the food requirement of countries of the world. Countries are competing with one another in the race for development. There is a paradox between economic development and ecology and one of the elements of pollution is the growing tendency in the falling number of animal breeds.Turkey has a great potential for animal genetic resources and animal production. Development of this countryТs animal production in the last twenty years brought about a risk of extinction in farm animal genetic diversity. Several examples and the risk potentials in Turkey have been presented.Cattle population decreased from 18 million down to 11 million within 30 years through several cattle improvement projects in an attempt to increase the productivity of the native breeds. Also sheep and goat population decreased in the last 20 years. Several reasons, including genetic erosion from farm animal genetic sources in Turkey, have been given. But today there is a structure of the global strategy for management of farm animal genetics resources in Turkey. The conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Turkey, in accordance with the UN convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),the FAO and several NGOТs, are explained in the text