The original CBD text outlines many commitments - in situ and ex situ conservation, sustainable use, protected areas, research, public education - needed for the “conservation of biological diversity… [which] includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.” The 2001-2010 commitments and the Strategic Plan for 2011-2020 contained a high level Goal and a Target for genetic diversity (see Table 1), but had major issues such as vague wording and focused on agricultural and other socioeconomically and culturally ‘valuable’ species. This led to national monitoring and reporting on genetic diversity that was primarily concerned with crops and livestock, crop wild relatives, and harvested trees, and on ex situ activities like seed banks and breeding programs, while neglecting most wild species (Hoban et al. 2020, 2021c). As one exception to this trend, Scotland produced a sub-national scorecard assessing genetic diversity in wild species as part of their progress toward Aichi Target 13 (Hollingsworth et al. 2020)