TOPIC	AUTHOR	TITLE
Keynote Addresses	Leiva, A	Botanic gardens and national sustainable development
	Prance, G	Genuine collaboration – a future key to botanic garden success
	Taylor, RL	Lessons learned: Key principles of botanic garden development
	Wyse Jackson, P	Building the Botanic Garden Network
Conservation Practice
A.) Conservation Strategies	Cortes, J	Assuming the responsibility: integration of conservation in the garden and the community.
	Engels, J	Complementary Conservation Strategies
B.) Ex-situ conservation	Cong Khan, Tran et al	Establishment of a botanic garden for the protection of the plant genetic resources of the Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam
	de Moraes LF et al (Pereira)	Atlantic rainforest restoration at Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden Research Institute.
	Gomes, MBA	Creating native habitat displays – Faial Botanic Garden, Azores, Portugal.
C.) In-situ conservation	Dulloo, E	Conserving diversity of wild plant genetic resources: A case study of wild Coffea taxa in the Mascarenes Island
	Kiew, R & Chan, L	Habitat management: the strategy to preserve the biodiversity of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Rain Forest
	Waldren, S	The flora of Pitcairn Islands and its conservation.
	Wilken, D	Research in Conservation Biology at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden: An integrated approach
D.) Botanical Gardens and their Networks	Affolter, JM & Ceska, JF	The Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance, a Network for Conservation and Collaboration
	Izidine, S	The status of Botanical Gardens in Mozambique
	LeHir, F and Pierrel, R	The National Botanical Conservatories of France
	Oikawa, J	Evolving roles of living plant collections in botanic gardens for biodiversity conservation -- a survey of Japanese botanic gardens
	Willis, CK	SABONET - A regional southern African capacity-building programme
E.) Conservation and food plants	Christensen, TJ & Beal, A	Australian Bush Tucker: New crops, new industry
	Krasnoborov, I	The role of Siberian botanical gardens in food security principles development
Garden Management and Horticulture
A.) Developing new gardens	Bray, L	Achievement of new botanic gardens through analysis of existing parts and integration of key assets to fulfill the French-speaking botanic garden charter
	Lehana, SH	Proposed Lesotho National Botanical Garden (LNBG) ....Justification of the Lesotho Hortus Botanicus
B.) Maintaining Botanical Gardens	Forbes, S	Bench marking in Australian botanic gardens and zoos.
	Powrie, F	Maintenance plans as a tool for the management of living collections.
C.) Old botanical gardens in a new world	Birnie, A	Re-developing an old botanic garden collection: the Nairobi Arboretum.
	Cappelletti, EM	Conservation of an endangered botanic garden.
	Owusu-Afriyie, G	New roles for old gardens in tropical Africa.
Science and Research
A.) Science and conservation	Barendse, D	The Solanaceae germplasm bank at the Botanical Garden of Nijmegen
	Cochrane, A and Monks, L	Germplasm collection, storage and reintroduction: Important aspects of an integrated strategy for conservation of threatened flora in Western Australia
	Fay, MF et al	The application of genetic fingerprinting techniques to plant conservation problems.
B.) Medicinal plants	Crouch, NR, Hutchings, A	Zulu healer muthi gardens: inspiration for botanic garden displays and community outreach projects
	Pushpangadan, P	Medicinal plants and local communities.
C.) Reproductive biology	Brown, NAC	Propagation of Cape wild flowers from seed: The seed biology research programme at Kirstenbosch
	Koropachinsky, I	Natural hybridization of woody plants in Siberia and promises of use of natural hybrids in introduction and selection.
Education
A.) The Environmental Education milieu	Ashwell, A	Education Programme Management and Transformation: The Influence of Education for Sustainability.
	Bedford, DJ	Changing the paradigm: selling the message "no plants no life".
	Edwards, ID	Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?
B.) The Botanical Garden as an educational tool	Atiti, AB	Implementing an education programme at a new botanic garden.
	Gouveia, M Theresa de Jesus	Environmental Interpretation Programme AND Environmental Education Programme
	Johnson, S	The educational value of gardening.
	Roff, J & Honig, M	Hands-on effective interpretation -- Making your garden come alive
	Sanders, D	Cultural botany: Building bridges
C.) Botanical Gardens case-studies	Lebrun, L	Omaere Park : an ethno-botanical school.
	Hitchcock, W	Developing teachers’ workshops at Kirstenbosch.
Policies and Conventions	Galbraith, D	Articles in the Convention on Biological Diversity pertinent to botanic gardens.
	Kiehn, M	The CITES workshop
Capacity Building, Development and Funding	Howarth, F	Evolving strategic plans into action plans to make things happen.
	Jay, JA	Marketing and commercialization at Kirstenbosch.
	Munoz, J	Funding strategies for the establishment of a botanic garden – experience from Argentina.