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Supporting the world’s botanic gardens towards increased impact to protect plant diversity.
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Situation
Botanic Gardens have long been centres of excellence for plant conservation; collectively they conserve more than 40% of threatened plant species in their living collections and seed banks. However, many gardens have limited resources to pursue plant conservation, particularly those in developing countries, where often the greatest plant diversity is found. Such gardens are in need of garden infrastructure, trained staff or funding to dedicate to conservation activities.
Solution
BGCI manages a Global Botanic Garden Fund, disbursing grants of £2,500 to gardens worldwide since 2019. Gardens submit short applications detailing their conservation problem and how the funds will be spent; projects are selected and gardens have 1 year to complete their project aims. To date BGCI has disbursed £350K funding 150 projects worldwide. This has helped gardens in projects such as recovering from Covid-19 impact, garden infrastructure, discovering lost species to restoring habitats.
