Hai Ren, IAC Member and Director at South China Botanical Garden (China), recently published this comprehensive review of the advances in conservation and the reintroduction of rare and endangered plants in China.

A new report on the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), highlights its success in aligning actions by the world’s botanist and plant protection community through a shared set of principles and objectives.

The program aims to promote partnership activities to preserve and understand Earth’s genomic biodiversity of plants. Call for applications open from 22 September - 15 November 2020.

BGCI is working as a partner with the Climate Change Alliance of Botanic Gardens (Alliance), Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and the University of Tasmania to develop a Climate Risk Assessment Tool

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are launching a new free short course about Plants and Climate Change. 

The Red List of Acer: revised and extended, published in September 2020 by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), gives the conservation status of all 158 maple or Acer species.