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Influencing Decision-Making and Policy

BGCI: Influencing Decision-Making and PolicyBGCI is well-known and widely respected for its role in policy development and implementation relating to plant conservation. It is, for example, generally acknowledged that without the policy work of BGCI, the GSPC would not have been developed and adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity.

BGCI is a full partner with Fauna and Flora International in the Global Trees Campaign and provides the Secretariat for the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation.

Over the next five years, BGCI will continue to maintain its position as a leading advocate for plant conservation, with specific aims to:

  • Engage with policy makers and wider society to ensure that the CBD continues to pay full attention to the conservation and sustainable use of plant species beyond 2010, addressing the urgent threat of climate change
  • Ensure mechanisms are in place to facilitate informed decision making by forging links between conservation best practice and biodiversity policy.
 

Latest News

GLOBAL
15th January 2008

Conservationists from around the world have declared 2008 the Year of the Frog to highlight their new campaign to save threatened amphibians from extinction.

IRELAND
7th December 2007

National Botanic Gardens director Peter Wyse Jackson has identified 171 species of Irish flora that could be facing extinction by 2050 due to climate change. The news comes as he Irish government launches a €15 million campaign to raise public awareness and change behaviour countrywide.

BGCI
14th November 2007

BGCI has published a new edition of the CITES manual for botanic gardens. It's available to download online and in print from our head office.

More News

International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation
The International Agenda is a global policy framework for botanic gardens worldwide to contribute to biodiversity conservation. Find out more about how botanic gardens are contributing here.
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
The GSPC is a plan to save the world's plant species. Botanic gardens are making a major contribution worldwide. Click the image to find out more.
Download the Gran Canaria Declaration on Climate Change as a PDF
In issuing its ‘Gran Canaria Declaration on Climate Change and Plant Conservation’ the Gran Canaria Group, whose membership is drawn from major biodiversity conservation organisations around the world, calls on the international community to take urgent action to protect global plant diversity.