BGCI's 2024 Technical Review: The importance of botanic gardens in tackling the illegal plant trade

  • Region

    Global

  • Programme

    Illegal Plant Trade

  • Workstream

    Saving Plants

  • Topic

    Plant Conservation

  • Type

    Event

  • Source

    BGCI

News Published: 03 September 2024

This will be the first webinar discussing BGCI’s exciting new campaign tackling the illegal trade of plants. One major output of this campaign in 2024, has been BGCI’s latest technical review ‘The importance of Botanic Gardens in Tackling the Illegal Plant Trade’. This webinar will present on the major findings of the report and also highlight some of the 16 case studies from BGCI’s botanic garden network that are included in the report. More information on the campaign goals, strategy and methods of joining will also be presented.

Confiscated specimens in South Africa. Photo Credit: SANBI

We will hear from two botanic garden partners, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden from Hong Kong and Korea National Arboretum about the impact the illegal plant trade has had on their work, what current initiatives they are working on and further examples of how gardens might want to get involved.

When: 11 September 2024 at 9:30 am BST

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We will schedule an additional webinar later in the day for people from America.  Please click here for for details about the afternoon webinar. 

 

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