The latest issue of Roots focuses on pollination and botanic gardens and is available to download.

The latest issue of Roots focuses on Connecting visitors with nature and is out now!

The latest issue of Roots focuses on Accessibility and is out now!

The latest issue of Roots focuses on how botanic gardens have been engaging with their visitors during a global pandemic. It is now available to download.

The latest issue of BGCI's education journal Roots is now available and focuses on botanic gardens and the role of climate change education.

Roots 19.2: Learnings from Congress 2022 now available.

Roots 18.2: IMPACT - Botanic gardens and the quest for evidencing change now available

Contribute to the next issue of Roots on Education and Technology. Deadline for abstracts - 30th June.

Contribute towards the next issue or Roots which is focusing on how we measure our impact

BGCI has an extensive Public Engagement programme and education team who support botanic gardens in their public engagement and education efforts through a range of resources, tools, and projects.

Recruiting new audiences requires both skill and expertise as well as an understanding of the audiences you wish to engage with

Contribute to the next issue of Roots. Send in an abstract by 5th August!

The next issue of Roots will focus on Accessible Interpretation - submit an abstract today!

Given that environmental and social issues are so closely intertwined, growing a social role is vital in order for botanic gardens to prove their modern-day relevance by engaging with their local communities on issues of mutual concern

Science communication is about getting science from scientists to non-scientists. Botanic Gardens are science centres concerned with research on and conservation of plants and their habitats, and as such have a key role to play in communicating the value and importance of plants and sustainable lifestyles

Interpretation methods can include panels, trails, guided tours, apps, exhibitions, labels, events and the creative arts amongst others.

IBSE is designed to reflect how students actually learn, and engages students in the process of scientific inquiry

The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 12th February.

The BGCI Sustainability Challenge aims to work with leading botanic gardens to develop a series of simple, small-scale sustainability challenges, with associated incentives, that aim to empower and bring about behavioural change amongst garden visitors and the broader community.

On this World Soil Day, it’s a great time to remember that the soil is incredibly important to plants for their survival and growth.

The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, with its 16 targets for plant conservation, was first adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the CBD in 2002. The GSPC targets were renewed and updated for 2010-2020. The process of developing a post-2020 GSPC is now underway.

Chinese Swamp Cypress is suffering from low regeneration rates in its natural habitat and very little plant material is available for reinforcement planting in the wild. 

Today the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species released it’s first update for 2022 and with it 2,437 new tree species assessments were published. This brings the number of tree assessment available on the IUCN Red List to 37,411 assessments.

A tree protection system has been introduced to protect RBGE's iconic trees.

BGCI is calling on all engagement colleagues of botanic gardens to complete a new survey that we have put together.

I have recently come across a number of articles and instances where scientific knowledge is regarded as antithetical to traditional knowledge, but is this actually the case?