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Bgjournalvolume 1 • Number 1 • July 2004 Journal of Botanic Gardens Conservation International BGjournalVolume 1 • Number 1 • July 2004 Report of the Second World Botanic Gardens Congress in Barcelona Developing Targets for the International Agenda How to join Botanic Gardens Conservation International The mission of BGCI is to build a Institutions can join BGCI for the following benefits: world network for plant conservation. • Membership of the worldwide plant conservation network It was founded in 1987 and now • Botanic Garden Management Resource Pack (upon joining)* includes over 525 member • Regular publications: institutions in 115 countries, working - the regular newsletter, Cuttings together to implement the - BGjournal – an international journal for botanic gardens (2 per year) International Agenda for Botanic - Roots - environmental education review (2 per year) Gardens in Conservation and the - A wide range of new publications new Global Strategy for Plant • Invitations to BGCI congresses and discounts on registration fees Conservation. • BGCI technical support and advisory services Institution Membership £ Stlg US $ £ Euros A BGCI Patron Institution 5000 7500 7500 B Institution member (budget more than US$2,250,000) 600 940 940 C Institution member (budget US$ 1,500,000 - 2,250,000) 440 660 660 D Institution member (budget US$ 750,000 - 1,500,000) 300 440 440 E Institution member (budget US$ 100,000 - 750,000) 160 220 220 F Institution member (budget below US$100,000)* 75 110 110 *Generally applies to institutions in less developed countries Other Membership Categories: • Regular publications: - the regular newsletter, Cuttings Membership benefits depend on - BGjournal - an international journal for botanic gardens (2 per year) category - see below. These can - Roots - Environmental Education Review (2 per year) include: • Invitations to BGCI congress and discounts on registration fees Corporate Membership £ Stlg US $ £ Euros G Corporate Gold Member (BGjournal, Roots and Cuttings plus more) 5000 7500 7500 H Corporate Silver Member (BGjournal, Roots and Cuttings plus more) 1000 1500 1500 Individual Membership £ Stlg US $ £ Euros J Conservation donor (BGjournal, Roots and Cuttings plus more) 160 220 220 K Associate member (Cuttings and BGjournal) 355050 L Associate member (Cuttings and Roots) 355050 M Friend (Cuttings) available through online subscription only (www.bgci.org) 10 15 15 *Contents of the Botanic Garden Management Resource Pack: The Darwin Technical Manual for Botanic Gardens, A Handbook for Botanic Gardens on the Reintroduction of Plants to the Wild, A CITES Manual for botanic gardens, BGjournal - an international journal for botanic gardens (2 past issues), Roots - environmental education review (2 past issues), The International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation, Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, Environmental Education in Botanic Gardens, BG-Recorder (a computer software package for plant records). Payment may be made by cheque payable to Botanic Gardens Conservation International,or online at www.bgci.org or by VISA/Mastercard sent to BGCI, Descanso House, 199 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3BW, U.K or Fax: +44 (0) 20 8332 5956. ❑ I wish to apply for membership of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Name . Telephone . Address . Fax . E-mail . Internet site . Membership category . Annual rate . VISA/Mastercard number . Credit card expiry date . Signature . Print name . ❑ I would like to make a donation to BGCI. Amount . Please clearly state your name (or the name of your institution) on all documentation. Please contact [email protected] for further information. Contents 02 Editorial Editors: Etelka Leadlay and Peter Wyse Jackson 03 Forthcoming Meetings Cover Photo: Serapias Lingua (Photo: Timothy Walker) 04 Developing international targets for botanic gardens in Design: John Morgan, Seascape E-mail: [email protected] conservation Submissions for the next issue should reach the editor before 31st October, 2004. We would be very grateful 07 Report of the 2nd World Botanic Gardens Congress, for text on diskette or via e-mail, as well as a hard copy. Please send photographs as original slides or prints Barcelona, Spain unless scanned to a very high resolution (300 pixels/inch and 100mm in width); digital images need to be of a high resolution for printing. If you would like The Millennium Seed Bank Project International Programme further information, please request Notes for authors. 15 BGjournal is produced by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). It is published twice a year and is 17 Conserving Grevillea williamsonii: the importance of sent to all BGCI members. Membership is open to all taxonomic research for appropriate conservation action interested individuals, institutions and organisations that support the aims of BGCI (see inside back cover for membership application form). 20 Role of St Petersburg Botanic Garden in the establishment Further details available from: • Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Descanso of the Lower Choper Nature Park House, 199 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3BW UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8332 5953, Fax: +44 (0)20 8332 5956 E-mail: [email protected], www.bgci.org 22 Ornamental Grasses in Argentina: introduction and • BGCI-Russia, c/o Main Botanical Gardens, Botanicheskaya st., 4, Moscow 127276, Russia. cultivation of native and exotic species Tel: +7 (095) 219 6160 / 5377, Fax: +7 (095) 218 0525, E-mail: [email protected], www.bgci.ru • BGCI (U.S.) Inc., c/o Judith Zuk, Secretary/Treasurer, 24 International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation; 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11225-1099, U.S.A. Tel: +1 718 623 7200, new registrants Fax: +1 718 857 2430, www.bgci.org/us • BGCI-Netherlands, c/o Utrecht University Botanic Gardens, P.O. Box 80162, NL-3508 TD, Netherlands. Gardens Online - The BGCI worldwide botanic gardens Tel: +31 30 253 2876, Fax: +31 30 253 5177, 26 E-mail: [email protected], database and a new international database of plant collections www.bi.uu.nl/botgard • BGCI-Canarias, c/o Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Apartado de Correos 14, Tafira Alta 35017, Short Communications Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain. 29 Tel: +34 928 21 95 80/82/83, Fax: +34 928 21 95 81, E-mail: [email protected] • BGCI-China and South East Asia, c/o National Parks 31 Book Notices Board, Cluny Road, Singapore 259569. Email: [email protected], www.bgci.org/china • BGCI-Colombia , c/o Jardín Botánico de Bogotá, Registration Form International Agenda for Botanic Gardens Jose Celestino Mutis, Av. No. 61-13 – A.A. 59887, Santa 32 Fe de Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. Tel: +57 630 0949, in Conservation Fax: +57 630 5075, E-mail: [email protected], www.humboldt.org.co/jardinesdecolombia/ html/la_red.htm Publications List • BGCI-Deutschland, c/o Botanische Gärten der Universität Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 171, 53115 Bonn, Germany. Tel: +49 2 2873 9055, Fax: +49 2 28731690, E-mail: [email protected] BGCI is a worldwide membership organization established in 1987. Its mission is to build a global network for plant 07 07 conservation. BGCI is an independent organization registered in the United Kingdom as a charity (Charity Reg No 1098834) and a company limited by guarantee, No 4673175. BGCI is a tax-exempt (501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the USA and in Russia. Opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the Boards or staff of BGCI or of its members BGjournal replaces BGCNews and will be published twice a year. BGjournal has been given a new name as the news section of BGCNews and Roots (Botanic 15 Gardens Conservation International Education Review) is now contained in Cuttings which is published quarterly. There have been 31 issues of BGCNews published twice yearly from 1987-2003. 20 22 BGjournal • Vol 1 (1) 01 Editorial Table 1 Feature articles included in BGCI’s magazine, Botanic Gardens Conservation News (December 1987 to December 2003). Europe (East and West) 57 Global botanic garden issues and policies 40 Latin America and the Caribbean 39 Africa and Indian Ocean 36 East and South East Asia 34 North America 33 Botanic Garden Conference reports 31 South Asia 29 It is a pleasure for me to write an Botanic garden techniques and practices 25 editorial for this the first issue of Russia, Ukraine and other countries of former Soviet Union 24 BGCI’s new publication, BGjournal. Australasia 23 It is now seventeen years since BGCI’s South West Asia and the Middle East 9 first serial publication Botanic Gardens Conservation News was launched, Total 380 which has appeared without fail twice a year since then. Remarkably the format of BGCNews was changed little over the seventeen years, partly Over the last few months BGCI has We believe that it is important to because it has mainly retained the made considerable efforts to ensure maintain standards in these articles and same editors but also because it was that these articles are newly accessible will continue to follow the rigorous developed into a format that readers and available to users. Copies of most editorial policy that we have pursued came to know and expect. It included have now been posted on the BGCI over the last decades to ensure that all a list of forthcoming meetings, website (www.bgci.org) and later in the articles published meet necessary obituaries (thankfully not too many!), year these will be made easily standards. Up to now the articles have news from the botanic garden accessible by means of an easy-to-use not been formally peer-reviewed (other community and from BGCI itself, book search facility. than by the BGCI editorial team and a reviews and announcements and a range of ad hoc BGCI advisors who series of longer feature articles about However with the launch of BGCI’s have helped us over the years). botanic gardens, their projects and new quarterly newsletter, Cuttings, in However we would be interested to reports of important conferences and 2004 we felt that the time had come to have your views as to whether you other major developments in the review the format of BGCNews and its would wish a peer-review system to be botanic garden scene worldwide.
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