4. Preparing to Launch
the North American Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy, David
Galbraith, Royal Botanical Gardens
There has been an almost continuous effort since 2000 to link the
missions and programs of botanical gardens around the world with
international movements like the UN’s Convention on Biological
Diversity, and the more recent Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
The newest publication in this effort is being published this summer
and is called the North American Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy.
The North American strategy has been produced by a group of cooperating
networks and institutions, including the American Public Gardens
Association, CBCN, the Mexican Botanic Gardens Association, and
the US Center for Plant Conservation. Leadership for the project
to produce the strategy, and funding for its printing, has come
from Botanic Gardens Conservation International, and especially
from BCGI-US, based at Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
This publication includes a list of targets for the botanical gardens
community in North America as a whole. It was developed in large
part as a result of the global targets for botanic gardens in conservation
developed at the Second Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Barcelona,
Spain in 2004, and subsequently published by BGCI. The global targets
in turn are linked to both the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation,
or GSPC, and the International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation.
The global botanic gardens targets are a subset of the 16 targets
of the GSPC, broken out as appropriate specifically for the botanical
gardens community. The global targets were also linked to the International
Agenda by being adopted as a protocol to the agenda at the Barcelona
congress.
A detailed action plan incorporating these targets in Canada has
already been published. In 2006, BGCI, RBG and CBCN published Conserving
Plant Diversity: The 2010 Challenge for Botanic Gardens in Canada,
an update to the 2001 Biodiversity Action Plan for Botanical Gardens
and Arboreta in Canada. The 2006 action plan update distils the
various recommendations of the International Agenda, the GSPC and
the global and North American targets into fewer than 24 actions.
The primary goal of CBCN is to complete the actions listed in the
2006 plan.
The North American Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy is being
published by BGCI in English, French and Spanish this year. Contact
me for more information. Copies of the strategy will be circulated
to CBCN members and other institutions in May.
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