"This time it is raising money both for the Sophie Williams Trust and Treborth
Botanic Gardens.
Penang exco Jagdeep Singh Deo, who recently visited the Royal
Botanic Garden of Edinburgh and the Kew Gardens in London, said this will be the second collaboration with an international
botanic garden on ways to preserve and improve the Penang
Botanic Garden.
The
Botanic Garden is the first research institution in the system of the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan, which began studying the local flora, as well as conducting its enrichment through the introduction of plants from various countries of the world.
Fatma Saleh Al-Khulaifi, Manager, QBG, said: "Participation in the BGCI 10 th International Congress of Education in
Botanic Gardens presented us with an excellent opportunity to showcase to an international audience the educational programs that we have provided to the community in Qatar, in collaboration with numerous local organizations.
Speaking at the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the development and up-gradation of the
Botanic Garden in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday, the environment minister said, "The garden is being developed and upgraded with the objectives of collection of plant species, research, training, environmental education, public awareness, aesthetics and entertainment through the protection of plant biodiversity."
<B Horticultural apprentice Carly Green stands next to a 16ft echium in the great glasshouse at the National
Botanic Gardens last year
We expected it might be as long as five years until he bloomed again," said Pati Vitt, a senior scientist at the
Botanic Garden.
Friends of
Botanic Gardens Group also helped with funding as did the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Botanic gardens across the world contain at least 30% of all known plant species, and 41% of those classed as threatened with extinction, the research published in the journal Nature Plants found.
Since the first
botanic gardens were created, more than 400 years ago, the communication strategies aimed at their publics have experienced great changes throughout time.
She also traced the contribution made by
botanic gardens, the plant hunters and collectors of South West Asia, and flora writers over the centuries to the knowledge and understanding of those plants.
