The 6th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
Sunday 10th – Thursday 14th September 2006

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Botanic Gardens Conservation International

University of Oxford

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Achieving Sustainability: Ideas and Solutions

Education for All - Working with Challenging Audiences

Reflection on Practice

Public Awareness of Plants

Theme: Achieving Sustainability: Ideas and Solutions

Dilan Bayindir, Nezahat Gökyigit Botanic Garden, Turkey.
An attempt of students to save an endangered plant of Turkey

Robinson Quintana Brito, University of Pereira Botanic Garden, Colombia.
Using International Environmental Management standards (ISOs)to promote and improve all aspects of the botanic garden

John Ellison, Eden Project, UK
Gardens for Life

V.S. Farzaliyev , O.V. Ibadli & S.Q. Guliyeva, Central Botanical Garden, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic
The role of Central Botanical Garden in the enrichment and protection of the plant resources of Azerbaijan

S. Aneel Gilani, Quaid I-Azam University, Pakistan.
A model botanical garden and ethnobotany clubs in schools at Ayubia National Park, Pakistan

Ruth Godfrey, University of Leicester Botanic Garden, UK.
Food for thought

Merilyn Haigh, Gladstone Tondoon Bontanic Gardens, Australia.
Who will teach the children? The essence of nature will

Michaela Antonieta Hinojosa Yanouch, Quito Botanic Garden, Ecuador.
We cannot value what we do not know

Michael Holland, Chelsea Physic Garden, UK.
‘Back to the Garden’ project

Innocent Kabinda, Munda Wanga Trust Botanic Garden, Zambia
Environmental awareness and conservation at Munda Wanga

Lo Modou et al, Jardin d’experimentation des plantes utiles (jepu). Laboratoire de Pharmacognosie et Botanique, Université Cheikh, Dakar, Sénégal.
Medicinal plants strategies survey in Senegal with sustainable participative approaches

Chris Pratt, Antigua and Barbuda Botanic Gardens, Antigua
The botanic gardens of Antigua and Barbuda – past, present and future

Elena Pushai, Tver State University Botanical Garden, Russia.
Back to the roots: sustainable land-use and ethnobotanical traditions

Alexandre Rappoport, Department for Sustainable Use of Nature and Environment Protection of Moscow, Russia.
Environmental significance of botanic gardens in megacities and their role in education for sustainable development

Olga Shalaeva, Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Centre, Russia.
On liberal education for sustainable development

L.A. Skupchenko, K.S. Zainullina, Komi Science Centre, Russia
The role of the botanical garden of the Biology Institute in ecological education for sustainable development

Peter Tshisikhawe, Thohoyandou Botanical Garden, South Africa.
Thohoyandou Botanical Garden in Limpopo Province South Africa: Revamping for the future

Dragos George Zaharescu, University of Vigo, Spain.
Alpine collections at high altitudes: implementing a new educational strategy in the central Pyrenees

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Theme: Education for All – Working with Challenging Audiences

Dr Jennifer Schwarz Ballard, Chicago Botanic Garden, USA.
Are museums portable? Reflections on a community based summer science camp

Dilan Bayindir, education officer of Nezahat Gökyigit Botanic Garden
The garden of blind children: The Shining Garden

Dr Pat Ealey, The Holly Lodge Centre, UK.
Recognising radishes, touching tomatoes, smelling sweet peas and learning about lettuces

Orlik Gómez García, Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Mexico.
Everyone to the botanic garden: bringing nature closer to the children and families of Xalapa, Mexico

Maria Teresa de Jesus Gouveia, Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden, Brazil.
Promoting environmental education in botanic gardens: Medicinal plants collection in Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden

Michael Holland, Chelsea Physic Garden, London, UK
Plants that poison, plants that cure

Innocent Kabinda, Munda Wanga Trust Botanic Gardens, Zambia.
“People and plants”: a new twist to flora education at Munda Wanga Trust

Innocent Kabinda, Munda Wanga Trust Botanic Gardens, Zambia
The life skills programme

Dr Rita Nekrosiene, Klaipeda University Botanic Garden, Lithuania.
Environmental activities of schoolchildren

José Vargas, Rio de Janeiro Zoological Garden, Brazil
The botanic garden goes to school – the Brazilian experience

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Theme: Reflection on Practice

Esther García Guillén María Bellet Serrano and Mauricio Velayos Rodriguez. Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid, Spain.
Traveling workshops at the Royal Botanic Garden

Esther García Guillén María Bellet Serrano and Mauricio Velayos Rodriguez. Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid, Spain.
Results of workshops on communication and raising scientific awareness at the Royal Botanic Garden

Esther García Guillén, María Bellet Serrano and Mauricio Velayos Rodriguez, Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid, Spain.
The plants in the Quixote: a self guided tour at the Royal Botanic Garden

Susanne Husband, Eden Project, UK.
Fusion: science and art. Schools’ mosaics at the Eden Project

Dr Yin Linke, Xinjiang Ecology Research Institution, China
Conservation and use of Tamarisk

Dr P S N Rao, Botanical Survey of India, India
Developing good educational practice based on the study of two phytogeographical zones in India

Dr Rup Kumar Roy, Botanic Garden, National Botanical Research Institute, India
Role of Botanic Gardens in Education and Public Awareness: NBRI Botanic Garden – a case study’

Prof. Francesco Sartori, Pavia Botanic Garden, Italy.
Research and environmental education in Pavia Botanic Garden

Dr Karen van Oostrum, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, UK.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden education programme

Timothy Walker, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, UK
Plant science in the biological sciences course at Oxford University

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Theme: Public Awareness of Plants

Christophe D. T. E. Assogba Cotonou, Benin
Presentation of the Botanical Garden and zoological of the UAC

Dr Sudhansu Sekhar Dash, Botanic Garden of Indian Republic.
Approach for an integrated education programme in the Botanic Garden of Indian Republic

Dina Dostal, Frank Schumacher, Michael Kiehn Botanic Garden University of Vienna, Austria
History of the University of Vienna Botanical Garden

Dina Dostal, Frank Schumacher, Michael Kiehn Botanic Garden University of Vienna, Austria
Education at the University of Vienna Botanical Garden

Charlene Forrest, Milner Botanic Garden, Canada.
Helping community ‘Shoots’ make and meet ‘Roots’

Christina Harrison, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
How Kew grew

Rizwana Khanum, Pakistan Museum of Natural History Museum.
Positive aspect of weed for agro-biodiversity conservational priorities and creating awareness for their proper use.

Cristina Lopez Beltrán, Botanical and Zoological Society of Sinaloa, Mexico.
Love for nature

Alenka Marinèek and Jože Bavcon, University Botanic Gardens, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Carnivorous plants project

Francis Molua Mwambo, Limbe Botanic garden, Cameroon.
What flower gardening can offer

Ana Cristina P. Tavares Departamento de Botânica Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Champion species in Coimbra Botanical Garden

Dr Irina Trofimova, Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
The new greenhouse – the new approach

Dr Irina Trofimova, Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
Children’s awareness of plants: preliminary investigation of the problem ‘at the sharp end of art’

Kapila Yakandawala, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
Ethnobotany of Helicteres isora in Sri Lanka

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