The Global Biodiversity Standard is being developed to specifically recognise and promote the protection, restoration, and enhancement of biodiversity. The certification aims to provide assurance that tree planting, habitat restoration and agroforestry practices are protecting, restoring, and enhancing biodiversity. A draft methodology of the Global Biodiversity Standard has been developed and is now available for technical consultation.

BGCI’s new Technical Review on the role of botanic gardens in practising and promoting environmental sustainability represents an overview of sustainability practices carried out by botanic gardens worldwide.

BGCI’s new Technical Review on the role of botanic gardens in urban greening and conserving urban biodiversity.

BGCI is pleased to announce the publication of the 2024 Technical Review!

BGCI has published a new technical review on the purposes and trends in the exchange of plant material between botanic gardens and arboreta.

The SEABG Network hosted an online technical talk entitled "Genetics for Plant Conservation in Southeast Asia" on 03 June 2026.

The BGCI Webinar Series will share knowledge, ideas, and updates with BGCI Members, Partners, Donors, and Supporters around the world.

The South American Botanic Garden Network would like to invite you to the first of a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

2021 Year in Review - Sharing Knowledge and Resources

BGCI is preparing a technical review on the susceptibility of botanic gardens and their responses to natural and man-made disasters and is carrying out a questionnaire survey.

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.

We invite you to a series of Caribbean and Central American Botanic Garden Network Technical Talks (TechTalks) featuring voices from around the network.

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the technical management and role of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

We invite you to the first in a series of Caribbean and Central American Botanic Garden Network Technical Talks (TechTalks) featuring voices from around the network.

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

The South American Botanic Garden (SABG) Network would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

International specialists strengthened the technical capacities of gardeners and herbarium assistants in conservation and management of collections.

“Rooted in resilience: Governance, financing and technical support for locally led biodiversity-rich, climate-smart ecosystem restoration in Africa”

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

The therapeutic potential of contact with nature from scientific evidence.

The susceptibility of botanic gardens, and their responses, to natural and man-made disasters looks at the nature, frequency and impacts of natural and man-made disasters in botanic gardens over recent years.

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

This project will strengthen seed banking capacity & capabilities for four institutions in Latin America.

Regional and national botanic garden networks are an essential tool to take action for the conservation of plant diversity in a more coordinated and efficient way.

BGCI’s accreditation scheme distinguishes botanic gardens from non-botanic gardens and recognises achievements in plant conservation.

BGCI's Education Officer, Ane Zabaleta, will present an introduction to interpretation, analyzing the types of interpretation that exist, their uses, and the reasons why it is important to use interpretation to facilitate communication and scientific dissemination.

The South American Botanic Garden Network would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

BGCI Accreditation Program: Challenges and Opportunities

The AmistOsa Restoration Model: restoring connectivity through an altitudinal gradient in southern Costa Rica.

Last year in September our partner Terraformation launched the Seed to Forest Alliance, to support biodiverse, native reforestation by providing a network to connect forestry teams with financial and technical support.

From Chile, Roberto Niculcar will present the history and ex situ conservation work carried out by the most austral seed bank in the world, the Banco de Germoplasma SAG - Magallanes.

The Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botánicos (RSAJB) would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

Strategies for research at Medellín Botanic Garden

LIFE VIDALIA is organizing the technical workshop “On the Conservation of Endemic Flora”, on June 1st at 9 AM GMT.

The South American Botanic Garden (SABG) Network would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

The South American Botanic Garden Network would like to invite you to a series of virtual talks introducing you to experts in the different aspects of the role and technical management of botanic gardens in the Latin American region.

Recording available from the latest technical talk of the SEABG Network: “Botanic Gardens of Indonesia”, featuring BRIN and ITERA Botanical Garden.

Join this webinar, 11 September 2024.

Join this webinar 11 September 2024.

Botanic Gardens Conservation International today announced that The Morton Arboretum and the Chicago Botanic Garden have been selected to partner with BGCI to host the 9th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Chicago in summer 2027.

Learn to prepare proposals when applying for BGCI plant conservation proposals.

Learn to prepare proposals when applying for BGCI plant conservation grants.

Did you miss it? You can watch it again. A talk about why gardens should share and update their listing in GardenSearch and PlantSearch, its benefits for the gardens and the wider botanic garden community. A detailed step by step on how to do the upload onto the new PlantSearch.

The Food Sustainability Challenge is a UK based project funded by The Rothschild Foundation which aims to explore and support the development of food sustainability interventions taking place in UK botanic gardens.

Working with local communities and the authorities to restore karst landscapes in China.

To address forest degradation, biodiversity loss and food insecurity, this project engaged four communities in the Sra-aem Commune.

BGCI will launch a public consultation at the end of October to raise awareness about its flagship initiative, the Global Biodiversity Standard (GBS).

Comms Officer, Rebecca Hansell, talks to BGCI's new Director of Conservation Policy & Practice, Dr Carly Cowell, as we head into an exciting new chapter of BGCI’s conservation work.

The Royal Botanical Garden-CSIC of Madrid-Spain and the Padre Julio Marrero Botanical Garden of Ecuador join forces through science and art.

In 2021, BGCI’s Global Botanic Garden Fund distributed 33 grants worth $72,400.

The 2nd International Symposium on Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) is taking place in Korea between 8–10 July 2026.

On June 29th, the IPSN held its online UK Members Summer Meeting, sharing project outcomes and new initiatives, and discussing priorities for 2026-2027. 

This event brought together more than 140 researchers, conservation practitioners & young scholars.

In February, BERP (Biocultural Education Research Programme) and Andromeda Botanic Gardens hosted a dynamic 3-day workshop on Biosecurity and Plant Health, in collaboration with BGCI’s CCABG and IPSN networks, and Naples Botanical Garden.

If we make the assumption that some stakeholders want to do the right thing for biodiversity and it isn’t just market forces at play, we need it make it as easy as possible for them to do so.

BGCI Webinar: Missed it? The importance of Botanic Gardens in Tackling the Illegal Plant Trade’. You can watch it again here.

September 25th to 27th, 2024, at the RHS Science Centre.

Take part in a Survey to Tackle the Illegal Trade in Plants.

The 8th Global Botanic Gardens Congress promises to be an excellent platform for botanic gardens, institutions of higher learning, policymakers and plant enthusiasts to get together, exchange knowledge, network, and draw inspiration from one another’s experience.

The Global Biodiversity Standard team were delighted that the IUCN chose us to present at their event at COP. BGCI's Global Biodiversity Standard Project Manager, David Bartholomew, did a fantastic job at highlighting the importance of this initiative.

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a membership organisation, representing botanic gardens in more than 100 countries around the world.

BGCI is the largest plant conservation network in the world, and we will coordinate, empower and mobilise our network to carry out plant conservation prioritisation, planning, action and monitoring, preventing plant species extinctions, and promoting sustainability. We do this through our technical networks.

BGCI’s GardenSearch database is the only global database of the world’s botanic gardens and similar organizations.

Regional and national botanic garden networks and plant conservation organisations throughout Asia.

The International Plant Exchange Network is an instrument for the acquisition and exchange of living plant genetic resources at botanic gardens.

BGCI supports its membership through training and capacity building workshops and resources.

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

BGCI offers a range of possibilities for your company to support and benefit from partnerships that tackle the world’s greatest environmental challenges.

You can enable a small botanic garden to enjoy the benefits of a year of BGCI Institutional Membership.

Plant diversity underpins the functioning of all ecosystems, which in turn provide the fundamental support systems upon which all life depends.

BGCI resources can help an organisation on their journey to open a new botanic garden.

For the last three years, our partners in Peru (Huarango Nature and University of Jaen), have compiled information on distribution, threats, penology, physiology and uses of Myrcianthes ferreyrae (CR), Parkinsonia peruviana (CR) and Pradosia argentea (CR).

The Samoa Conservation Society is working closely with the Samoan Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and with technical and funding support from BGCI and the UK High Commission in Samoa, to establish Samoa’s very first botanic garden, the Vailima Botanical Gardens (VBG).

Oak woodlands, a key forest vegetation type in northern Iraq, provide vital ecosystem services for the region. Amongst other tree taxa, four oak species have been recorded in Iraqi Kurdistan, of which only one population with some six mature individuals has been recorded presently for Iraq, in the Sari-Hassan Bag mountains.

The most threatened species of the Dipterocarpaceae family in Borneo are missing from ex situ conservation programs & we require better knowledge of these species to improve this situation. 

Twenty per cent of the 631 Puerto Rican native tree species are endemic. Hurricanes often hit the island so many trees are adapted to them, however increased frequency & intensity of storms now threatens their survival. 

Fiji is a biodiversity hotspot. However, the islands are experiencing rapid loss of rare dry forest habitat, and there is little information on the majority of the islands’ 700 tree species. 

This Darwin Initiative funded project, taking place in the Tuyen Hoa district in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province is working to co-managing biodiversity in the area, including the endangered Hatinh langur and improving livelihoods.

The Sud Expert Plantes Développement Durable (SEP2D) programme is a France-based funding initiative that supports projects on plant research for sustainable development in 22 francophone countries.

An example from the Bavarian Natural History Collections (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, SNSB)

Successful vegetative propagation of this critically endangered tree.

Over the last three years, BGCI and partners have worked to implement integrated conservation action for locally threatened oak species and habitats.

The Global Biodiversity Standard (GBS) is looking for feedback to support the ongoing development of the standard.

Watch the recording for BGCI and SER webinar on the Global Biodiversity Standard now

BGCI is pleased to announce Jeannie Raharimampionona as the winner of the 2020 Marsh Award for International Plant Conservation and Tara Moreau as the winner of the 2020 Marsh Award for Education in Botanic Gardens.

Standing and watching the loneliest tree in the world, my first reaction was one of sadness – that with all of humankind’s collective knowledge and ingenuity, we haven’t been able to propagate this plant.

In the next installment in our interview series we meet another dedicated conservationist working with GTC to save the world’s most threatened trees from extinction.

The Global Trees Campaign works with the conservation of threatened trees, but what does it mean to be threatened, rare, at risk, endangered or vulnerable? How are the terms used? Why is it important to distinguish between them?

Dr. Calaway (Cal) Dodson, the first Executive Director of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens passed away on Sunday, August 9, 2020 at the age of 91.

Ibrahim Mitole from the Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust receives the EDGE Fellowship for his work on the Critically Endangered Mulanje Cedar Tree.

At an event in London, BGCI announced the winners of the 2019 Marsh Awards for International Plant Conservation and Educations in Botanic Gardens.

At the 2019 Species Survival Commission (SSC) Leaders’ Meeting, members of the Global Tree Specialist Group (GTSG) and the Global Tree Assessment’s network were recipients of three IUCN SSC awards. These awards are given to recognize the exemplary voluntary contribution of individuals and Specialist Groups towards the global work of IUCN.

As part of a three-year programme of activities in the UK, the IPSN is offering three small grants to botanic gardens / individuals to carry out three independent studies. Applications to be received by 19 August, 2022.

Support staff and sustain collections at botanic gardens in the Ukraine through this time of crisis with our new Ukraine Botanic Garden Appeal.

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

At the recent meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties gave support for a post-2020 GSPC.

BGCI highlights its work to save plants, inspire people, share knowledge and resources, and address global challenges in its 2021 Year in Review.

2021 Year in Review - Inspiring and Leading People

Reflections on 2021 - BGCI's Secretary General Blog

While a bit later than normal, BGCI is pleased to share the 2020 Member's Review.

In a simple signing ceremony last 30 Nov 2020, Joaquin H Gaw of the Avilon Zoo and Leonor G Berroya of the FNSPI formalized a partnership through a Memorandum of Agreement [MOA].

BGCI is remembering an outstanding biologist and promoter of the botanic garden community, Brígido Peguero.

South American Botanic Garden Network Virtual Event - Experiences on establishing a national botanic garden network

Korea Arboreta and Gardens Institute (KoAGI) has been designated as the TGBS Korea Hub to advance high-integrity ecosystem restoration and science-based verification efforts

Join the celebration of Recife Botanical Garden 47th Anniversary on 1 August 2026.

Join the webinar on 23 July to introduce the TGBS Mentoring Programme.

The workshop brought together specialists from ten countries to strengthen their capacity to create propagation protocols for threatened tree species.

Itera Botanic Garden Retains Rank as Indonesia’s 3rd Best Regional Botanic Garden rewarded by BRIN.

BGCI led workshops towards BGCI Accreditation delivered in collaborative, practical, and experience-based, reflecting the commitment of the Caribbean and Central American Botanic Garden Network to plant diversity conservation through a professional and well-documented framework.

“Exploring the Intelligences of Life through Art”, opens at PUCESD held within the framework of France’s 2025 Science Festival .

TechTalk about Dipterocarps, October 23 at 3 pm Singapore time.

The Emerald Ash Borer workshop as part of the IPSN project, at Orto Botanico di Roma during EruoGard10, 2025,

Guest blog contribution from James Douglass from Royal Botanic Gardens-Edinburgh, Scotland about IPSN

From 3–8 August, BGCI joined partners in Accra, Ghana, for the 23rd AETFAT Congress, helping to revitalise the African Botanic Gardens Network (ABGN) with 34 delegates from 13 countries.

The Illegal Plant Trade Coalition is making strides, with new branding and a call to action for botanic gardens ahead of launch activities in October.

International collaboration publishes 12 new papers supporting conservation of threatened heather species

Tree conservation and restoration practitioners work together in a Tree Conservation Think Tank.

The majority of the world's trees have been listed on the IUCN Red List for the first time, revealing that at least 16,425 of the 47,282 species assessed are at risk of extinction.

Take a first look at the new, upcoming podcast from BGCI!

Join us Tuesday 5 November 2024.

Secretary General of BGCI, Paul Smith, shares his thoughts on the recent 8th Global Botanic Garden Congress (8GBGC) held in Singapore.

Watch it again! Red Sudamericana de Jardines Botanicos educational experience! and to celebrate Jesus Garcia's work as he receives the Marsh Award for International Plant Conservation

The CCABG Network invites you to the next TechTalk: Reviving Bermudas Ecosystems - 30th May 2024

Seeds are a critical first step in climate action, bolstering local livelihoods, enhancing food security, and preserving biocultural diversity.

Studies of Carbon Storage at the Botanic Garden of the University of Manabí, Ecuador

In a significant leap forward for biodiversity is restoration projects, the inaugural Train the Trainer workshop for the Global Biodiversity Standard (GBS) has successfully concluded.

Following the devastation of one of our member gardens, BGCI is now opening the Disaster Recovery Fund to facilitate international donations directly to the garden to help them rebuild following this tragedy. 

Climate Impact Partners has partnered with BGCI to launch Save a Species, a biodiversity program enabling companies to protect the world’s threatened tree species. 

21st Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, "Advancing Plant Conservation Through Horticulture", May 17th 2024.

8th Global Botanic Gardens Congress- The most significant platform to discuss the work of botanic gardens.

The Morton Arboretum Soil Ecologist Meghan Midgley, Ph.D., has been named director of the tree-focused botanical garden’s renowned Center for Tree Science.

Exciting News: Unveiling Caribbean and Central American Botanic Gardens Network TechTalks Recordings!