BGjournal

BGjournal is the worldwide journal of botanic garden conservation. It covers a range of detailed content including in-depth features, congress reports, profiles of gardens and case studies of conservation work being carried out in gardens around the world.

BGCI is pleased to announce that prior issues of BGjournal and its predecessor, Botanic Gardens Conservation News, is now freely available on JSTOR.

Produced bi-annually this publication was formerly called BGCNews. There were 31 issues of BGCNews published twice yearly from 1987-2003.

Associated resources

  • BGjournal 21.1 – Plant Conservation & achieving The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

    Public Engagement, Services for Botanic Gardens / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 20.1 - Supporting plant conservation through Global Botanic Garden Funds

    Public Engagement, Services for Botanic Gardens / BGCI Journal
  • BGjournal 19.2 - University botanic gardens: contributing to plant conservation, research & education

    Public Engagement, Services for Botanic Gardens / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 19.1 - The Global Biodiversity Standard

    Ecological Restoration / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 18.2 - The Global Tree Assessment and botanic gardens: linking assessment to conservation action

    Conservation Prioritisation, Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 17.2 - Botanic Gardens: Working towards the achievement of the GSPC Targets

    Policy and Advocacy, Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 18.1 - From genes to genomes: botanic gardens embracing new tools for conservation and research

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 17.1 - Celebrating International Year of Plant Health: Botanic gardens and biosecurity

    Policy and Advocacy, Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 16.2 - Plant collecting: underpinning the work of botanic gardens

    Conservation Horticulture, Policy and Advocacy, Plant Conservation, Tree Conservation / BGCI Journal / English
  • BGjournal 16.1: Access and Benefit Sharing: botanic garden responses

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 15.2: Botanic gardens and their contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 15 - Life on Land

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 15.1: Botanic gardens and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 14.2: Conservation horticulture: Making a garden a botanic garden

    Conservation Horticulture / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 14.1: Red lists: Plant conservation assessments and the role of botanic gardens

    Conservation Prioritisation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 13.2: Restoring damaged ecosystems: The role of botanic gardens and the Ecological Restoration Alliance

    Ecological Restoration / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 10.1: Building capacity for plant conservation – the role of botanic gardens

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 13.1: Early warning systems for plant health: The role of botanic gardens

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 12.2: Tree conservation and the role of botanic gardens

    Tree Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 9.2: Botanic gardens and wild flora for rural livelihoods

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 12.1: Botanic gardens and seed conservation: making progress towards GSPC Target 8

    Seed Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 9.1: Botanic gardens - science, innovation and pushing boundaries

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 11.2: Botanic gardens: Using databases to support plant conservation

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 8.2: Botanic gardens and invasive alien species

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 11.1: Exploring energy gardens: Botanic gardens and biofuels

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 8.2: Les jardins botaniques et les plantes exotiques envahissantes- French

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / French
  • BGjournal 10.2: Botanic gardens and food security

    Policy and Advocacy, Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 8.1: International collaboration: Botanic garden partnerships for conservation

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 7.2: From policy to action: the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation – a conservation success story

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 7.2: Conservation Ex situ: La valeur des collections de plantes - French

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / French
  • BGjournal 7.1: Ex situ conservation: the value of plant collections

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 6.2: The challenge of sustainability

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 6.2: Le defi du developpement durable - French

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / French
  • BGjournal 6.1: Ecological restoration and the role of botanic gardens

    Ecological Restoration / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 5.2: Botanic gardens and urban biodiversity

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 5.1: Special issue: Conserving forest biodiversity

    Plant Conservation, Tree Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 4.2: Botanic gardens and climate change

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 4.1: Taxonomy and plant conservation the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 3.2: Special issue: the botanic gardens of East Asia

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 3.1: The International Agenda – five years on

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 2.2

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 2.1: Special Island Biodiversity issue

    Plant Conservation / BGCI Journal, Publication / English
  • BGjournal 1.1

    Policy and Advocacy / BGCI Journal, Publication / English

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