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Jean Linsky appointed as Southeast Asia Botanic Garden (SEABG) Network Coordinator.Continue reading...

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Jennifer M. Cruse-Sanders, vice president for science and conservation at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, has been named director of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA, effective Feb. 15, 2017.Continue reading...

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ThreatSearch is the most comprehensive database of conservation assessments of plants. It contains over 242,000 conservation assessments, representing over 150,000 plant taxa.Continue reading...

Last year the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew launched a series of Modular Certificates. These are primarily practical placements with some coursework.Continue reading...

BGCI and the IPSN took part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge and this year raised £16,553.75, beating our target.Continue reading...

BGCI is conducting an analysis of ex situ collections of Theaceae taxa using information held in our PlantSearch database. If your garden has a Theaceae collection, we need your help!Continue reading...

BGCI is delight to announce the 2016 winners of the Marsh Awards are Jenny Cruse Sanders for International Plant Conservation and Iwa Kołodziejska for Education in Botanic Gardens.Continue reading...

BGCI are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, a yearly fundraising event; this year money raised will be used to support the IPSN! Donate any time from midday Tuesday 29th November to midday Friday 2nd December 2016 for the chance to get your donation doubled and help keep trees...

BGCI is delighted to welcome the the Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria, as a Patron Member. As a Patron, the Royal Botanic Gardens joins a growing number of the world's largest and most influential botanic gardens and will play a key role in guiding BGCI's future programme.Continue reading...

BGCI in collaboration with Summit Municipal Park organised a Seed Conservation Training Course following the Building Botanical Bridges conference in Panama in September.Continue reading...

On October 28th, Cornell Plantations was re-named Cornell Botanic Gardens, the final step in a broad re-branding effort begun more than two years ago.Continue reading...

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After a successful meeting held at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai'i, BGCI will act as Secretariat to a new Species Survival Commision specialist group on seed banking.Continue reading...

The Botanical Garden of Cayes (Jardin Botanique des Cayes), the only botanical garden in Haiti, has been severely damaged by Hurricane Matthew. A fund has been established by Missouri Botanical Garden to help rebuild the garden.Continue reading...

On October 18, BGCI and the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) marking the start of a new partnership between the two organisations.Continue reading...