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The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: Celebrating success in 2010?

Our global survey: Please do participate, the success of the survey depends on the number of botanic gardens that respond.

English survey                 French survey                   Spanish survey

2010 will be a landmark year for the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).  Not only will governments be assessing the progress they have made nationally towards meeting the sixteen 2010 targets, but the stage is now set for revised targets for 2020 to be agreed within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

A revised GSPC for the period 2011-2020 has been developed by the CBD Secretariat in association with the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation.  BGCI, with the support of the Boeing Company has been actively engaged in reviewing this revised Strategy through the organisation of a series of regional workshops, and providing feedback to the CBD.  If all goes well, the revised GSPC will be adopted by the Parties to the CBD at the 10th Conference of the Parties in October 20101in Nagoya, Japan.

Although we know that progress towards the individual 2010 targets has been variable, it is clear that achievements have been made in many areas.  The Plant Conservation Report, now available in six languages, documents the progress that has been made towards implementing each target.

The Plant Conservation Report particularly highlights the contribution that the botanical community, largely through botanic gardens, has made to the GSPC. 

Botanic gardens have not only taken the lead in addressing specific targets, but in some countries have become GSPC focal points, leading the process towards developing national GSPC strategies and responses.  Botanic gardens around the world have adopted and used the GSPC in a wide variety of ways – but this tremendous contribution to plant conservation has not yet been globally assessed. 

In order to celebrate our successes in 2010, BGCI is working with the University of Bangor, Wales and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, to carry out a botanic garden survey. The aim is develop a comprehensive review of the role botanic gardens are playing in implementing the GSPC.  The results of the survey will be presented at the 4th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Dublin, in June 2010 and will be made widely available by BGCI.

Thank you for your help.