"Genetic Resources", a new open access peer-reviewed online journal which is free to publish and free to read.

The success of The Global Tree Assessment continues with the most recent IUCN Red List update (March 2020) with the publication of more than 1,500 conservation assessments for trees.

2020 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Plant Health. This issue of BGjournal therefore focuses on the biosecurity activities of botanic gardens around the world.

BGCI's Secretary General, Paul Smith, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on botanic gardens in his second blog.

In the afternoon of March the 3rd a heavy storm destroyed two plant nurseries at the Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden in Luang Prabang Laos.

Assessments for all Australian eucalypts (Eucalytpus, Corymbia and Angophora) have been published on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.