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The Global Partnership for Plant Conservation meeting at Missouri Botanical Gardens, USA attracted the attention of the local radio station, St Louis Public Radio. They broadcast a programme on 6 July entitled 'Global Plant Conservation: Saving the World from the Ground Up' which can be heard online.

Those interviewed on the programme included:

Peter Wyse Jackson
President
Missouri Botanical Garden
George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis

Sara Oldfield
Secretary General
Botanic Gardens Conservation International

Robert Höft
Environmental Affairs Officer
The Convention on Biological Diversity-Secretariat

Domitilla Raimondo
Threatened Plant Programme Manager
National Biodiversity Institute of South Africa

Further information and listen online here 

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