Oral presentations by theme

List of themes:
A: Implementing plant conservation policies through botanic gardens
B: The practice of plant conservation through botanic gardens
C: Botanic gardens and ecosystem conservation
D: Environmental education, the sustainable use of plant resources and the awareness of plant diversity
E: Sustainability: the contribution of biodiversity to sustainable living
F: Botanic garden horticulture and development
G: Botanic garden research
H: Heritage

A: Implementing plant conservation policies through botanic gardens

The Colombian Plant Conservation Strategy - Conservation of native plants in Colombia… a real drama
Alberto Gómez Mejía (Bogotá, Colombia)

Implementing the GSPC in the U.K
Judith Cheney (PlantNet, U.K.)

The contribution of the national network of botanic gardens to the implementation of the Global and European Strategy for Plant Conservation in Romania
Anca Sarbu (Bucharest, Romania)

Development and implementation of the Russian Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy
Alexander Demidov (Moscow, Russia)

B: The practice of plant conservation through botanic gardens

Perspectivas de la Conservación Integrada de orquídeas nativas en la Argentina (Perspectives of Native Orchids Integrated Conservation in Argentina)
Marcela Sánchez (BGCI, Argentina)

El jardín botánico queretano, un modelo que contribuye a la conservación de la diversidad biológica (The Querétaro Botanic Garden: a model which contributes to the conservation of diversity)
Emiliano Sánchez Martínez and María Magdalena Hernández Martínez (Querétaro, México)

El Jardin Botanico “Cassiano Conzatti”: Un ejemplo de patrimonio cultural y cientifico en Oaxaca (The Botanic Garden “Cassiano Conzatti”: an example of cultural and scientific heritage)
Gladys Manzanero Medina, Alejandro Flores Martínez, Inocencio Rodríguez Acevedo (Oaxaca, Mexico)

International Agenda: a progress report on its implementation since Asheville
Suzanne Sharrock (BGCI, UK)

The Macaronesian Seed Bank (basemac). A programme for rational conservation of plant diversity
Alicia Roca Salinas and Blas Vilches Navarrete (Las Palmas, Spain), Roberto Jardim, Francisco Fernández and José Augusto Carvalho (Funchal, Portugal) and Joao de Melo (Faial, Portugal)

ESCONET: The European Native Seed Conservation Network
Steve Alton (Wakehurst, U.K.)

An inter-regional network of Mediterranean seedbanks: GENMEDOC
Antonio Marzo(Valencia, Spain)

Implementing Target 5 of the GSPC (protection of 50% of the world most important areas for plants ensured by 2010): progress, problems & perspectives
Seona Anderson (Plantlife International, U.K.)

C: Botanic gardens and ecosystem conservation

The Galápagos Islands – vegetation dynamics and plant conservation
Ole Hamann (Copenhagen, Denmark)

National parks and botanic gardens: a Caribbean case study
Colin Clubbe (Kew, U.K.) and Joseph Smith-Abbott (BVI)

The University Botanic Gardens on Modena: practices in plant conservation and environmental management
Carlo del Prete, Daniele Dallai, Luigi Maffettone and Elisabetta Sgarbi (Modena, Italy)

Restoring the tropical dry evergreen forest through community participation
Paul Blanchflower (Auroville, India)

Looking beyond the garden’s borders: The environmental and socioeconomic concerns of a garden in a developing nation
Jorge Orejuela Gartner (Cali, Colombia)

Ex situ conservation of bryophytes
Margaret Ramsay, Jane Burch and Jennifer Rowntree (Kew, U.K.)

U.K. and European Zoo Horticulture groups and their contribution to the GSPC
Eddie Mole (Bristol, U.K.)

Botanic garden and zoological garden of the Fundação Zoo-Botânica de Belo Horizonte: a partner in conservation
Inés R. de Andrade, Carlyle M. Coelho, Liliane H. Evangelista, Fernando M. Fernandes, Ivan A. Pimenta and Cristiane Speziali (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Everyday is Earth Day
Virginia Wall (Asheboro, U.S.A.)

Introduction to the GSPC target on the control of 100 aliens
Brian Huntley (Cape Town, South Africa)

Invasive alien species and the role of botanic gardens
Frank Klingenstein (Bonn, Germany)

Weeds of the monsoon tropics of Australia
Greg Leach (Darwin, Australia)

Invasive plants of the Cantabrian coast
Ignacio A. Felpete (Asturias, Spain)

From international guidelines to local action plan: a comprehensive strategy to define the future of the Conservatoire et jardins botaniques de Nancy
Romaric Pierrel (Nancy, France)

D: Environmental education, the sustainable use of plant resources and the awareness of plant diversity

Evaluation of environmental education: outcomes for children
Sarah Kneebone (BGCI, U.K.)

Botanic gardens: walled stranded arks or environments for learning?
Dawn Sanders (National Foundation for Educational Research, U.K.)

No end to the banana
Charlotte Lusty, Richard Markham, Claudine Picq and Anne Vézina (INIBAP, France), Christian Bourdel, Denis Delebecque and Jacques Lefort (Montpellier, France), Anne Hébert and Thierry Lescot (CIRAD, France), Andrew Ormerod (St Austell, U.K.)

Developing an exhibition for botanic gardens in China - the BGCI experience
Anle Tieu (BGCI, China)

Posters and exhibitions of the Oxford Botanic Garden: raising awareness worldwide.
Louise Allen (Oxford, U.K.)

Integrating scientific research into Education at all levels
Timothy Walker (Oxford, U.K.)

E: Sustainability: the contribution of biodiversity to sustainable living

Development of an ecologically sustainable botanic garden in Barcelona
Núria Membrives (Barcelona, Spain)

New environmental technologies are opportunities for Botanical Gardens
Michel Labrecque (Montréal, Canada) and David Galbraith (Hamilton, Canada)

Botanic gardens and sustainable tourism
Antoni Aguilella (Valencia/Spain)

Quality management system at the La Concepción Botanic Garden
Pedro Alfonso Ranea (Málaga, Spain)

The MSBP developing partnerships in Africa
Clare Tenner (Kew, U.K.)

How do gardens survive when funding is lost?
Chris Fominyam (Limbe, Cameroon)

Supporting and multiplying concern for sustainable development amongst teachers and children: experiences of the Kodaikanal Botanic Garden project.
V.S. Manickam (Kodaikanal, India)

Integrated threatened plants programme: the case study of Hoodia
Silke Rügheimer (Windhoek, Namibia)

The experience of the Belize Botanic Garden
Judy du Plooy (Belize)

F: Botanic garden horticulture and development

Challenges of collection policy revision at the Montreal Botanical Garden
Michel Labrecque (Montreal, Canada)

Diversity of living plant collections in German-speaking countries – assessment, problems and concepts of ‘national collections’ as a possible solution
Frank Klingenstein (Bonn, Germany)

El Jardín atlántico de Gijón (Atlantic garden of Gijón)
Dulce Gallego Canteli (Gijón, Spain)

El Jardín Botánico de CICEANA: un jardín sobre la azotea en México (Jardín Botánico CICEANA: a garden on the roof in Mexico)
Raúl Gomez Porras (Mexico City, Mexico)

Nezahat Gökyigit Botanic Garden
Adil Güner (Istanbul, Turkey)

Developing a new premier Mediterranean garden in California
Chris Woods and Edward Schneider (Santa Barbara, U.S.A)

Ecosystem conservation through planning development of Kuwait Botanical Garden and Eco-Park
Samira Omar, Robert H. Grina, Tareq Madouh and Emad Al Ali (Safat, Kuwait)

Using students as volunteers: a great under-exploited resource for botanic garden development
Juan de Dios Muñoz (Paraná, Argentina)

Atlantis program for botanic gardens
Hans Persoon (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

G: Botanic garden research

Using molecular information for ex situ conservation of biological diversity
Juli Caujapé-Castells (Las Palmas, Spain)

Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian citrus: The Citreae tribe in a world context
Randall Bayer and Sarah Rich (Canberra, Australia)

Rehabilitation of a plant community at an archaeological site at Harappa, Pakistan
Amin U. Khan (Lahore, Pakistan)

Developing capacity for restoration in urban areas at the garden and beyond
Steve Clemants, Janet Marinelli and Judith Zuk (Brooklyn, U.S.A.)

Recent advances in scientific horticulture for botanic gardens
Simon Thornton-Wood (Wisley, U.K.)

Caracterización ecofisiológica de especies Mediterráneas (Eco-physiological studies of Mediterranean species)
Lydia Serrano, X. Aranda, X. Fábregas, F.X. Martínez and A. Terricabras (Barcelona, Spain)

H: Heritage

Reinvesting intellectual capital in environmental reconciliation – the role of botanic gardens
Steve Forbes (Adelaide, Australia)

A philosophical view of botanical gardens
Klaus Ammann (Bern, Switzerland)

The changing cultural and scientific heritage of botanic gardens
Vernon Heywood (Reading, U.K.)

La Concepción: historical heritage, botanical heritage
Leandro Olalla Mercadé (Málaga, Spain)

The World’s first National Botanic Garden Day – Argentina 2005
Marcela Sánchez (BGCI, Argentina) and Douglas Gibbs (BGCI, U.K.)

Conserving ethnobotany and indigenous knowledge in Paraná, Argentina
Juan de Dios Muñoz (Paraná, Argentina)

Ethnobotanical education and sustainable development: the example of Geneva’s Botanical Garden working with the south.
Didier J. Roguet and Rodolphe Spichiger (Geneva, Switzerland)

The Botanical Garden of Papatia (North Benin): perspectives for sustainable use, biodiversity conservation and preservation of traditional knowledge
Julia Krohmer and Karen Hahn-Hadjali (Frankfurt, Germany)

National collections of horticultural plants: the NCCPG experience and model
Rosamund Johnson (NCCPG, U.K.)

AFCEV: a meeting place for the future of biodiversity
Romaric Pierrel (Nancy, France)