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World Plant Conservation Day at the Hortus botanicus Leiden

07/05/2008

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS

A varied lecture program will be held in the old Orangery building of the Hortus. Why not subscribe and meet fascinating plants, botanists, plantlovers and the plantworld of the Hortus botanicus?

During different lectures (starting at 11.00 a.m.) you will be informed about the negative influence of human activities to living fossils like the Cycads, South East Asian Orchids or the changing eco-system of the dissapearing Aralsea in Central Asia.

The speakers in the morning (Prof. dr. S.-W. Breckle, University of Bielefeld and Dr. J. Vermeulen, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Universiteit Leiden branch), will give their talks in English, the talks in the afternoon (dr. I. Van Waveren, Naturalis, and A. Vogel, Hortus botanicus Leiden) will be in Dutch.

Programm in short:

•         10.30 - Coffee at the Orangery

•         11.00 - Welcome by Dr. Paul Keßler, prefect

•         11.15 - Prof. Dr. S.-W. Breckle, Bielefeld: The Lost Aral Sea - a new dynamic desert area

•         12.00 - Dr. J. Vermeulen, NHN-Leiden: South East Asian Orchids, on the rim of extinction?

•         12.45 - lunch

•         13.30 - Dr. Isabel van Waveren, Paleobotanist of Naturalis: Cycads – Companions to the dinosauriërs (Dutch)

•         14.15 - Art Vogel, Hortus botanicus Leiden: Cycadales: In- and ex-situ (Nederlands)


With the afternoon talks the prefect/director of the Hortus, Paul Keßler, will officially open the exhibition on the Cycads in the “Winter garden” where all species of palm ferns of the Hortus will be shown.

Please register for this event in sending an email to veen@hortus.leidenuniv.nl mentioning name, address, phone number and number of persons who will attend. We have also arranged a lunch box (Euro 7.50 either standard or vegetarian) that should be ordered at the same time.

There is no extra fee for the lectures, but normal entrance fee applies. Information about the program can be found on our website www.hortusleiden.nl under World Plant Conservation Day 2008.

Stans van der Veen
Hortus botanicus Leiden - Publiek en Informatie veen@hortus.leidenuniv.nl / 071-5275231 www.hortusleiden.nl

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