How Was It For You?

• Sydney Botanic Gardens visit
• Planting up of restored palm house, opportunity for field work
• To further reach out and educate the general public on conservation and environmental issues
• Organization of "Vacation training program on Bioresources for school children".
• Production of "The guidelines for Environmental Education in Botanic Garden".
• Visit of some selected village women Farmers to the Eco-education garden and as a result development of nutrition garden at their village/home for better food and nutrition security.
• Getting a new Historic Roses Collection
• Sorry, have not seen it...
• When we got our social organization registered
• Doubling our contract to beautify downtown.
• We had more visitors coming in.

• Not achieving all our goals.
• The shortage in our maintenance budget meant the garden looked bad through out the year
• We should have invited more and more people from the weaker [underrepresented] sections to learn from the garden and avail the facilities.
• All year having few people for work in education department the whole year
• When the United Nations Development Program PNUD turned down our small grant application. Main reason: the botanical garden is not self-sufficient
• Three staff members taking new positions with other other organizations
• Now: because the rains have stopped, it is dry and most of the trees are turning brown - the lawns too.

• Strengthen plant collections, work more on education.
• We would like to head for grand national level student programme to re-vitalize the garden.
• I hope we should strengthen the education for the public,and we should increase the researches for plant resource of protection.
• I wish to adopt many number of villages with the help of botanical gardens and plants, want to organise awareness activities for the schools/villages and distribute the education guidelines, seeds and manure to the target groups for conservation of bioresources, water conservation activity will be another major issue.
• More people working together for education program
• Better understanding of the needs of the people.
• We hope botanic gardens spread in the world. In our case,to get economical support to establish our botanic garden
• Improve the quality of programs offered by mid-size organizations.
• My hope is that with this coming year new ideas come so we will be able to correct the worst moments and improve on our best moments.

• Competing for visitors, especially encouraging school educational visits
• Establishing objectives, obtaining cooperation from management
• Financial sustainability
• Researching plant protection
• Water scarcity
• Financial resources
• Coping with the demands of the public and guiding it in the right direction
• I'm not sure if all botanic garden in the world are suffering the effects of climatic changes, but in our case the Wilma hurricane devastated some parts of our botanic garden protected area and the surrounding environs
• B G s will continue to face growing expectations from many constiuencies but see declining resources to provide the services
• Water management, and less or non use of chemical fertlizers and trying to imitate nature in garden design

Q6 - What are your predictions for the coming year in the botanic garden world?

• Things moving forward at a reasonable pace, network improving all the time
• Keeping the traditions and not going too commercial
• Collecting many species which are in severe danger, and creating the conditions to restore the number of species
• They will grow and prosper as things are moving in the right direction in my view
• Being more or less like the year 2005
• I guess globally it will be fine
• I hope all botanic gardens reinforce the education programs in conservation
• We may see one or two actually go bankrupt
• That all botanic gardens become one world in a network of all botanic gardens

Q7 - The respondent's backgrounds were in:

There were also scientists and an indigenous group NGO taking part in the survey.