BGCI Announces 2021 Global Botanic Garden Fund Recipients
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The Global Botanic Garden Fund aims to drive plant conservation, especially in smaller gardens by disbursing small grants every year. The Fund is open to BGCI Member Institutions only and preference is given to small botanic gardens in developing countries and biodiversity hotspots.
The aim of the Global Botanic Garden Fund is to support projects that work to achieve the targets of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
The 2021 Global Botanic Garden Fund
In 2021, BGCI received 120 applications for the Global Botanic Garden Fund Grant. Through the GBGF, BGCI and Partner organisations distributed 33 grants worth $72,400 to 20 different institutions, across 24 different countries.
Funding for the Global Botanic Garden Fund was made possible in 2021 by contributions from The Botanist Foundation, the Gibson Charitable Trust, and crowd-sourced funding through the 2021 Holiday Challenge.
In addition, BGCI administers named grant funding through support from the BGCI/ArbNet Partnership Programme, the BGCI/Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Grants, and the BGCI/GGI-Gardens Awards Program.
2021 Grant Recipients
| Organisation | Country | Project Title | Funding |
| Jardín Botánico de Chacras de Coria | Argentina | Atesorar la diversidad, nuestras endémicas andinas | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Jardim Botânico Univille | Brazil | Implementation of Sensorial Garden in UNIVILLE Botanical Garden | Global Botanic Garden Fund (The Botanist) |
| Jardim Botânico do Recife | Brazil | Saving the rooftop of Pernambuco Endemism Center: collecting seeds of endangered emergent trees species from a biodiversity hotspot | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Inhotim Botanic Garden (Brazil) | Brazil | Study of the responses of seedlings of threatened and native species from the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado to climate change scenarios | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Araribá Botanical Garden (Brazil) | Brazil | Araribá Botanical Garden’s Maintenance in times of COVID-19 | Covid-19 Support Grants |
| Jardín Botánico de Cartagena ‘Guillermo Piñeres’ (Colombia) | Colombia | Propagation of native Colombian Caribbean tropical dry forest tree species | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Jardín Botánico de Quito | Ecuador | Ex situ conservation and educational exhibition of Cloud Forest plants in the Botanical Garden of Quito | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI) | India | Reverse the Red: Assessing the population trends and developing recovery programme for two Cinnamomum species endemic to the Western Ghats | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Brackenhurst Botanic Garden | Kenya | Keystone of a Botanic Garden: Accessioning our Forest | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Missouri BG (Madagascar Office) | Madagascar | Rediscovery and conservation of the lost ebony Diospyros ketsensis in Madagascar | The Anthony Hitchcock Species Recovery Fund |
| Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología (UNAM) (Mexico) | Mexico | Critical maintenance in the living collections of the Botanical Garden-UNAM | Covid-19 Support Grants |
| International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Forest Center (IITA Forest Center) (Nigeria) | Nigeria | Enriching the Tree Heritage Park with rare and threatened native trees | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| BOTANICAL GARDEN, DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF JOS | Nigeria | Ex situ conservation of some endangered native trees in the Wood-land savanna of Nigeria | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Silliman University Arboretum | Philippines | Operation and Monitoring of Threatened Native Tree Species of Negros Island, Philippines | Covid-19 Support Grants |
| Hermanus Botanical Society (South Africa) | South Africa | Rehabilitation of Fragrance and Healing Gardens | Global Botanic Garden Fund (The Botanist) |
| Arboretum-Pinetum Lucus Augusti | Spain | Habitat recreation of Blue Mountains Pine (Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii) | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Jardí Botànic Marimurtra (Spain) | Spain | Cycads: Conservation, knowledge, and awareness | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid – CSIC | Spain | Ex situ conservation of geophytes species from the Iberian Peninsula | Global Botanic Garden Fund (The Botanist) |
| Tooro Botanical Gardens | Uganda | Supporting Tooro Botanical Gardens Arboretum to Conserve Albertine Rift Flora | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Botanical Garden | Ukraine | Developing a visitor-friendly infrastructure of the “Useful Plants” collection | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Forest Science Institute of Central Highlands and South of Central Vietnam (FSIH) | Vietnam | Ex situ conservation of endemic and endangered wild Camellia dilinhensis | Global Botanic Garden Fund (The Botanist) |
| Jardín Botánico de la ciudad de Buenos Aires ‘Carlos Thays’ | Argentina | Interpretational Visitor Centre | BGCI/Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Grants |
| Inala Jurassic Garden | Australia | Improve Inala Jurassic Garden (IJG) professional standards to gain BGCI Botanic Garden Accreditation thereby fostering partnerships and collaboration between IJG and other botanic gardens and institutes worldwide to further the objectives of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation | BGCI/Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Grants |
| Inala Jurassic Garden | Australia | Partnership between Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest (England) and Inala Jurassic garden (Australia) to propagate and grow ex-situ specimens of the critically endangered Mulanje Cedar, Widdringtonia whytei from Malawi, Africa. | BGCI/ArbNet Grants |
| Jardín botánico La Paz (Bolivia) | Bolivia | Ex situ conservation of two Andean endemic species of Cantua (Polemoniaceae) | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Brazilian Alliance of Botanical Gardens | Brazil | Brazilian Alliance of Botanical Gardens Seed exchange network | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Pha Tad Ke Garden | Laos | Understudied and threatened Fagaceae of Laos: Filling gaps in knowledge, ex situ collections and technical illustrations | BGCI/ArbNet Grants |
| Jardín Botánico de Acapulco ‘Esther Pliego de Salinas’ | Mexico | Parks and Gardens Technical Workshop | BGCI/Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Grants |
| Jardin Botanico de la Universidad Autonoma de Puebla | Mexico | Surveying and cultivation of two priority species in a biodiverse hotspot in Guatemala for conservation. | BGCI/ArbNet Grants |
| Botanical Garden, Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, University of Jos | Nigeria | Sourcing for water for irrigation activities | BGCI/Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Grants |
| Holden Forests & Gardens | United States | Integrated diversity conservation in crabapples | Global Botanic Garden Fund |
| Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens | United States | Advancing the Ex Situ Conservation of Cycads: Evaluating requirements for the initiation of somatic embryos from leaf tissue | Global Botanic Garden Fund (The Botanist) |
| Holden Forests & Gardens | USA | Oak Mycorrhizae: Analysis of fungal community composition on oak species in collections at the Holden Arboretum (Kirtland, Ohio) and the Yerevan Botanical Garden (Yerevan, Armenia) | BGCI/ArbNet Grants |
Call for Support
BGCI was extremely impressed by the applications submitted to the Global Botanic Garden Fund. It is a testament to the quality of applications and the clear need for continued and additional support to the botanic garden community.
BGCI will continue to look for additional funding for the Global Botanic Garden Fund, but it is clear that there is a demand for these grants and a need to support them in order to achieve global goals in plant conservation. BGCI thanks those already supporting the Global Botanic Garden Fund and are pleased to share the impact of their contributions.
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