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Linnaeus: 20 YEARS Still Relevant 300 Years On? 1987-2007 BGCI Education – Your Views! Volume 4 • Number 1 rBotanic Gardeons Conservation Internoational Education Revitew s April 2007 Is it an apple? Is it a pear? Who knows?! Cultivating urban ambassadors for nature Systematic education and interpretation BGCI education – your views! Linnaeus: 20 YEARS still relevant 300 years on? 1987-2007 BGCI education – your views! BGCI education department decided Roots is useful Sustainability; Marketing your education last year that it was time we practiced Roots readers find the articles the most programmes; Interpretation; Working what we preached and carried out useful (50%), followed by the whole of with school gardens; Volunteers. We some formative evaluation of our the journal (22%), then the resources will focus on these themes over the next resources. With the 6th International section (17%), then the editorial (6%). few issues – keep an eye out for the Congress on Education in Botanic This does indicate overwhelmingly that ones you voted for. We will also provide Gardens bringing hundreds of our readers find Roots supports their work. material on the other themes you colleagues from around the world Importantly, 84% of respondents said selected and include this on the together we couldn’t think of a better they found the different language website. time to get your opinions down on sections useful – indicating that we paper. A massive thank you to should continue with our trilingual You enjoy surfing the web! everyone who completed the forms at editorial, summaries and resources Your feedback on the website has been 3 the congress and on the International section. particularly useful, nearly ⁄4 of you have Diploma on Education in Botanic accessed it, which is very encouraging. Gardens (run at Kew in October and You want to get involved! Your ideas for improvements are November 2006), and to those who Over half of the respondents offered to excellent and we have been returned one of the forms sent out with contribute an article. We have your implementing some of them already. the last issue of Roots . We appreciate details and will contact you in due For example, we have just loaded over your input and can assure you that course. One suggestion was that we 300 case studies from back issues of your responses, comments and ideas should make forthcoming themes more Roots and congress proceedings onto are feeding directly into our planning widely known (e.g. through the the website. As requested by many of for the next couple of years. website, or given more prominence in you, we are currently working on the Roots ) so that potential authors can resource section of the website and this What did we find out from you? offer to share their experiences on the should be ready soon. subject. We will do this through the You read Roots website, and remember if you have any Future developments Happily, there is a high level of news or ideas that could fit into Roots You gave us ideas about Cuttings , the readership of Roots – with 87% of do let us know. BGCI newsletter, how many of you people either reading selected articles receive it and read it and what format or reading Roots cover to cover. 96% You want more practical ideas you would like it in, which again will of users usually read the editorial and On the whole, respondents think we feed into BGCI’s planning everyone reads at least one article in have a good mix of content in Roots – 3 Roots , with ⁄4 of users reading 3–7 they want to keep the amount of theory You were also very supportive of the articles on average per issue. The and research, external contributions and ideas we have about creating an resources section is also popular with contributions from botanic garden international e-newsletter and an on- 82% of people always or sometimes colleagues the same. What you want is line distance learning programme for 1 reading it. Interestingly only ⁄3 of more practical ideas. As so many of you education in botanic gardens. readers sometimes obtain hardcopies offered to provide articles for Roots we Because of this we have submitted of the recommended resources, will follow this up and ask for your funding proposals and hope to be able 2 whereas ⁄3 of readers favourite practical activities. to take these projects forward, we will (always/sometimes) access the keep you updated! recommended websites. Due to this Sustainability is the top issue we will be increasing the number of There were a huge number of responses So thank you again, and if you have online resources we include in the to the question about what themes you any other comments, queries or resource section; if you have any ideas, want the next few issues of Roots to suggestions for us please do get in do get in touch. cover. The top five were: Education for touch, [email protected] Contents 02 Editorial: Linnaeus – still relevant 300 years on? Julia Willison, Botanic Gardens Conservation International Editors : Julia Willison, Sarah Kneebone 05 Is it an apple? Is it a pear? Who knows?! Gail Bromley, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK Cover Photo : Taxonomy in action, Timothy Walker, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, UK Design : John Morgan, Seascape. Tel: +44 (0)1273 416842 09 Linnaeus as a teacher Magnus Lidén and Mariette Manktelow, University of Uppsala Botanic Forthcoming Issues Volume 4 Number 2 – Education for Sustainability - Garden, Sweden focus on water. Last submission date July 20 2007 Roots is produced by Botanic Gardens Conservation 12 We shall always need taxonomists International (BGCI) . It is published twice a year and is Timothy Walker, University of Oxford Botanic Garden, UK sent to all BGCI members. Membership is open to all interested individuals, institutions and organisations that support the aims of BGCI (see inside back cover for membership application form). 15 Taxonomy for horticulture students Gregory Kenicer, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Further details available from: • Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Descanso House, 199 Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3BW 17 Systematic education and interpretation UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8332 5953, Fax: +44 (0)20 8332 5956 email [email protected], www.bgci.org Nick Meijdam, Utrecht University Botanic Garden, The Netherlands • BGCI-Russia, c/o Main Botanical Gardens, Botanicheskaya st., 4, Moscow 127276, Russia. Tel: +7 (095) 219 6160 / 5377, Fax: +7 (095) 218 0525, 20 Teaching children using the essence of nature E-mail: [email protected], www.bgci.ru • BGCI (U.S.) Inc.,1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, Merilyn Haigh, Gladstone Tondoon Botanic Gardens, Australia New York 11225-1099, U.S.A. Tel: +1 718 623 7200, Fax: +1 718 857 2430, www.bgci.org/us • BGCI-Netherlands, c/o Delft University of Technology 22 Cultivating urban ambassadors for nature Julianalaan 67, NL-2628 BC Delft, Netherlands Suma TS, D.K. Ved, Vijay Barve, M. Supriya, Sathya Sangeetha, and Tel: +31 15 278 4714 Fax: +31 15 278 2355 email: [email protected] Savitha B, Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, India www.botanischetuin.tudelft.nl • BGCI-Canarias, c/o Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo, Apartado de Correos 14, Tafira Alta 35017, 26 Reporting on BGCI’s education congress Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain. Tel: +34 928 21 95 80/82/83, Fax: +34 928 21 95 81, E-mail: [email protected] 28 Resources • BGCI-China and South East Asia, c/o Registry, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore Educational resources for botanic gardens 259569. Email: [email protected], www.bgci.org/china • BGCI-Colombia, c/o Jardín Botánico de Bogotá, Jose Celestino Mutis, Av. No. 61-13 – A.A. 59887, Santa Fe de Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. Tel: +57 630 0949, Fax: +57 630 5075, E-mail: [email protected], www.humboldt.org.co/jardinesdecolombia / html/la_red.htm • BGCI-Deutschland, c/o Botanische Gärten der 05 09 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 mobilise botanic gardens and engage partners in securing plant diversity for the well- being of people and the planet . BGCI is an independent organization registered in the United Kingdom as a charity (Charity Reg No 1098834) and a company limited by 12 15 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 17 20 22 BGCI would like to thank the co-editors for their work in the production of Roots: For the French Section: For the Spanish Section: Loïc Ruellan – Conservatoire Botanique de Brest, France Maricela Rodriguez Acosta – Herbario y Jardín Botánico de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Anne Lindsey – Jardins du Monde, France Puebla, Mexico Thierry Helminger – Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Arboretum Kirchberg, Antonio Lopez Quintana – Universidad de Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain Luxembourg Lourdes Rico-Arce – Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Francoise Brenckmann Roots • Vol 4 (1) 01 Linné – toujours pertinent 300 ans après ? Linnaeus, 300 años después ¿…y todavía actual? Julia Willison Linnaeus - still relevant 300 years on? Editorial - English Editorial - Français Editorial - Español Le déclin vraisemblablement inexorable La inexorable pérdida de popularidad de l’intérêt porté à la taxonomie semble, de la taxonomía con el paso de los au fil du temps, être devenu une años ha sido una preocupación inquiétude récurrente chez beaucoup de recurrente entre nuestros colegas de nos collègues des jardins botaniques. los jardines botánicos.
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