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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

BGCI: Botanic Gardens Conservation International
http://www.bgci.org/

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a membership
organisation representing a network of 500 botanic gardens in more than 100
countries, including the largest and most influential gardens in the
sector. BGCI is the largest plant conservation network in the world, and
aims to collect, conserve, characterise and cultivate samples from all of
the world’s plants as an insurance policy against their extinction in the
wild and as a source of plant material for human innovation, adaptation and
resilience.

The BGCI network of botanic gardens includes: globally significant *ex situ*
collections, covering approximately a third of known plant diversity; world
class seed banks, glass houses and tissue culture infrastructures, and;
technical knowledge networks covering all aspects of plant conservation
policy, practice and education. BGCI is in a prime position to promote an
efficient, cost-effective and rational approach to plant conservation in
botanic gardens. As outlined in BGCI’s Business Case and Plan (2015-2020)
<http://www.bgci.org/files/CasePlanMedRes.pdf>, we do this in four ways by:

   1. *Leading and advocacy.* We provide leadership for the botanic garden
   sector, promoting the role of botanic gardens to policymakers and funders
   in delivering the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
   2. *Leading innovative and strategic projects* *achieving outcomes in
   plant conservation policy, practice and education.* BGCI leads projects
   and networks delivering Global Strategy for Plant Conservation targets in
   red listing (Target 2), seed conservation (Targets 8 & 9), ecological
   restoration (Targets 4 & 8), plant health and biosecurity (Target 10),
   ecosystem services and livelihoods (Targets 12 & 13) and education (Target
   14).
   3. *Co-ordinating efforts and building plant conservation capacity in
   botanic gardens and broader society.* We build technical capacity in the
   botanic garden sector and beyond by acting as a knowledge hub and a
   clearing house for best practice, training, resources and expertise
   (Targets 3 and 15).
   4. *Providing funding.* We mobilise funding to deliver plant
   conservation projects and outcomes in the botanic garden community and
   wider society.

Our vision is a world in which plant diversity is valued, secure and
supporting all life. To create this world our mission is:

* "To mobilise botanic gardens and engage partners in securing plant
diversity for the well-being of people and the planet".*

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Central Siberian Botanical Garden / Центральный сибирский ботаническй сад
СО РАН

Russian Federation - Novosibirsk oblast - Novosibirsk

http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=198

About the Central Siberian Botanical Garden / Центральный сибирский
ботаническй сад СО РАН

Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences is the largest botanical institution in the Asian part
of Russia. It was founded in the West Siberian Division of the USSR Academy
of Sciences on academician V. L. Komarov's initiative in 1946.
Central Siberian Botanical Garden is a center of integration of botanical
and ecological research in Siberia. Council of Siberian Botanical Gardens,
Council for Problems of Botany in Siberia, Council for Protected Objects of
the Plant Life and Novosibirsk Branch of the Russian Botanical Society work
at the institution.
CSBG, SB RAS is a member of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. The
scientists take part in different joint projects with the USA, Italy,
Finland, Canada, Sweden, China and other countries.

Training of highly qualified personnel for research institutions and
educational establishments of Siberia through graduate and post-graduate
studies is an importantpart of the work of CSBG. There is a Dissertation
Committee on Ecology and Botany.

More than 70 patents on the inventions and cultivars of food, medicinal and
ornamental plants have been obtained by the specialists of CSBG.

A number of collections and experimental plots have been created to date
and new ones are being created within the Garden. These include an
arboretum consisting of 400 species, 166 forms and hybrids, a medicinal,
spicy and aromatic plant garden (350 species), collections of forage plants
(270 species), rare and endangered plants (more than 100 species),
ornamental plants (428 species) and food plants (144 species). There is
also an extensive tropical collection held in the glasshouses consisting of
3000 species of tropical and subtropical plants. Experimental plots "Stony
garden", "Garden of continuous flowering" and "Bonsai"are significant for
this region. There are two herbaria with 550,000 specimens, a seed
collection (1220 species) and a big collection of lichens and fungi.
Much of the basic and applied work that CSBG undertakes is in the form of
the publication of 170 monographs, numerous collections and articles. In
recent years publications have included a 14-volume "Flora of Siberia",
"Green Data Book of Siberia", "Red Data Books" of certain regions of
Siberia and "Manuals for the Identification of Plants"of Novosibrsk and
Kemerovo Oblasts. "Siberian Journal of Ecology" is published.