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Cultivate Issue 9: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Number 9 - December 2005
Sarah Dixon
| | | | Dear Reader  Many thanks to all of you who took part in our latest survey. We asked you: "Is Sustainability Happening Yet in Botanic Gardens?"
Botanic gardens are increasingly placing sustainability issues high on the agenda – but do they engage fully with the meaningful actions behind the rhetoric? Find out what you said here:
http://www.bgci.org/cultivate/sustainability_survey.html BGCI are presently carrying out an in-depth study on sustainability in botanic gardens. For more information, click here. We also had several of you send us some very interesting stories about what your garden is doing in sustainability - here is an example from colleagues in Switzerland, where they are working with local people in Bolivia and Paraguay on the sustainable use of plants. Best wishes,
Sarah Dixon
Editor
cultivate@bgci.org | | | | 
Let's take a look at what to expect in the coming year... New Website for Botanic Gardens Worldwide There will be a restructured BGCI website offering a platform for the global BG community. Enhancements will include: greater language support and a news-to-your-desktop XML/RSS feed; improved editable web pages for botanic gardens; online publication ordering; improved data sharing and exchange mechanisms and an interactive International Agenda tool that lets you measure your contributions to a wide range of plant conservation aims. www.bgci.org - watch this space! Education Congress  Education: There will be a Congress in September 2006...with hundreds of delegates from around the world...discussing all aspects of the latest in environmental education, in both Spanish and English.
www.bgci.org/educationcongress Planet Plant Kids in the US will be able to travel in a virtual world of plants. BGCI US are developing a website where students age 9-12 get to travel each month to a new topic using their online passport. Look out for it in the spring. | | | | Global political and social priorities are rapidly changing. How will this affect botanic gardens and their work in plant conservation? It looks likely that as sustainability and climate change are pushed up the agenda, plant institutions will have to continue to evolve rapidly. We will take a closer look at these topics in the New Year - in the meantime, why not send in your views? Either email me - or use our feedback form. | | | | | | | | Issue 9 - December 2005 |  | How Was It For You? 
As 2005 draws to a close we can take the opportunity to look back over the past year and consider the changes that have happened, for good and for ill. Many new challenges are facing the global botanic garden community, and many new opportunities are arising. Take the last survey of 2005 to let us know how your year has been – and give yourself the important and rare chance to reflect on what you have been doing and congratulate yourself for your hard work and achievements. | | |
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|  | | 2006 Highlights: Target 14 of the GSPC will be a focus for a series of meetings worldwide as we inch closer to 2010 and plant extinctions continue. Click on the image to download a PDF on T14: 
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