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BGCI is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge! Donate on Friday 4th or Saturday 5th December 2015 as close to Midday (12pm) GMT as possible and your donation could be doubled.Continue reading...

The Ecological Restoration Alliance of Botanic Gardens (ERA) is a global consortium of botanic gardens actively engaged in ecological restoration. The most recent meeting of ERA was an opportunity for setting targets for 2020 that will drive us towards achieving ERA's goals.Continue reading...

Today the IUCN Red List is releasing its latest list of species conservation assessments. The entire list now consists of 79,837 assessments – 26% of which are plants. Nearly two thirds of trees listed on the Red List are considered threatened and the number of threatened trees is...

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The Global Tree Specialist Group aims to have conservation assessments for all the world’s tree species by 2020.Continue reading...

The recipients of the 2016 International Garden Tourism Awards.include two BGCI members - The Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Australia and Hangzhou Botanical Garden, ChinaContinue reading...

A new report 'How Can Botanic Gardens Grow Their Social Role? Lessons from the Communities in Nature programme' has just been published. The report is a review of the Communities in Nature programme which was conducted by BGCI with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.Continue reading...

the World Tulip Summit Society (WTSS) is pleased to announce that the Leiden Botanic Garden is the winner of the 2015 award for the Tulip Garden of the YearContinue reading...

The New York Times features global tree conservation and BGCI's PlantSearch database.Continue reading...

Are you a botanist with a sense of adventure and good sea legs? Windfall Films are looking for people with botanical knowledge to take part in a maritime survival seriesContinue reading...

BGCI is delighted to announce that the 2015 winners of the Marsh Awards are Jože Bavcon for International Plant Conservation and Sophie Williams for Education in Botanic Gardens. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.Continue reading...

The New York Times features global tree conservation and BGCI's PlantSearch database.Continue reading...

Are you a botanist with a sense of adventure and good sea legs? Windfall Films are looking for people with botanical knowledge to take part in a maritime survival seriesContinue reading...

BGCI is delighted to announce that the 2015 winners of the Marsh Awards are Jože Bavcon for International Plant Conservation and Sophie Williams for Education in Botanic Gardens. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.Continue reading...

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Our new report, released today, highlights that only 74% of the most threatened trees are absent from ex situ collections, lacking this vital conservation action that could save them from extinction.Continue reading...

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Historically THE thinker's game, chess is not - in contradiction of what many think - just a left-brain logical contest. Alpha Peak Playing expertly requires both hemispheres of the brain. Your left-brain will be analyzing attainable moves and predicting responses of your enemy. Your right brain...

BGCI is delighted to welcome Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden as its latest Patron memberContinue reading...

BGCI is exploring the possibility of developing a twinning programme to help botanic gardens make mutually beneficial partnerships. Find out more about our proposed programme and take the surveyContinue reading...