Katja, although Peru does not have a botanical garden as a research institution, there has only been a general discussion involving academic institutions. You may try to contact the Director of the "Museo de Historia Natural" of the University of San Marcos in Lima. She has been involved in this topic.

Thank you Blanca that is an excellent tip!

Thanks! Keep me posted please. I am interested!

We have one of the oldest botanic gardens in South Asia in Botanical Survey of India and are doing our level on biodiversity Conservation

Thank you for your reply Paramjit, I know of your garden and would love to be in touch. Perhaps we could Skype sometime. Also, if you are interested I can send you details about the conference: maybe you would like to present a paper about this work.

Katja, we have two such gardens in Mumbai and have been playing significant role in conservation and awareness programme! One of them has special section on medicinal plants while other has good number of exotic and indigenous species of trees!

Hi Rejandra, thank you for your reply. It would be great to talk to you over Skype sometime soon. Would you be interested?

Yes, certainly! Also available on Face time!

Great Rajendra me too. Tuesday or Wednesday would be good days for this if you are free. I am not sure how we can exchange email addresses for FaceTime here and we would have to figure out how best to conciliate our time difference but I am much looking forward to talk to you

Dear Katja, please send the information to the Center for Plant Conservation Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor-Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), West Java, Indonesia. We have been actively building new botanical gardens throughout the country for almost 20 years after the botanical garden in Bali was built in 1959. The oldest botanical garden was built in 1817 and now there are 25 botanical gardens have been existed.

http://www.bogorbotanicgardens.org/

Thank you so much for this Rismita, it is exciting to hear of your work. I will be thrilled to stay in touch.

Dear Katja, that sounds like an interesting meeting. You probably know that Montreal recently hosted the 50th meeting of the Canadian Botanical Associaton. I can think of a few articles relevant to your question (the first two are more generally about natural history and specimen collection, not botanical gardens).

1) Tewksbury et al. (2014) Natural HIstory's Place in Science and Society Bioscience - there is a section on the role of natural history in academia and institutions.

2) Minteer et al. (2014) Avoiding (re)extinction Science, and subsequent responses. Best of luck with your meeting.

3) Waylen (200) Botanic Gardens: Using biodiversity to improve human well-being. Newsletter of the Medicinal Plant Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (This is less about biodiveristy conservation and more about ecosystem services).

Best of luck with planning the meeting. 

http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/23/biosci.biu032.full

http://www.irbv.umontreal.ca/cba-meeting?lang=en

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/260.summary

http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/mpc12.pdf#page=4

During the 80ies ACSAD (Arab Center, Damascus /Arab League) had working-relationship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens) in Uk, incl. biodiversity in dry lands / arid zones. Old "colonial" botanical gardens established by colonial powers at many places esp. in the tropical world are often still fanatastic hidden treasures of biodiversity. 

We, in the KFRI Sub Centre, Nilambur, India have a botancical garden (called as Bioresources Nature Park). The garden harbours about 9,000 plant species assembled in theme areas such orchid house, fern garden, medicinal plants garden, palm garden, hydrophytes gardens, cacti and succulant garden, butterfly garden etc. One unique feature of this Biorsoruces Nature Park  is the presence of a Taxonomic Garden, probably first of its kind in Asia.

Thanking you

With regards

Dr. U.M. Chandrashekara

Scientist in charge

Kerala Forest Research Institute Sub Centre, Nilambur

Chandakunnu P.O. 679329, India

e mail: [email protected]

Try to get in touch with BGCI https://www.bgci.org/

Hi, does anybody have a list of tropical / subtropical trees and shrubs, which can be propagated by vegetative means? I feel it is relevant for biodiversity-promotion in the field.