CAPACITY BUILDING

 

First Training Workshop || Second Training Workshop

 
 


(1st Training Workshop)
WORKSHOP ON MANAGING BOTANIC GARDENS "Investing In Nature"
Program organized by NBRI (CSIR) & BGCI in Pantnagar University

 

  Scheduled February 24 to 27, 2004
  Organizer National Botanical Research Institute
  Host GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology,
Pantnagar, District Udham Nagar, Uttaranchal-263145
  Chairperson Prof. P.L.Gautam, Vice Chancellor, GB Pant University, Pantnagar
  Co-Chairperson Dr. P.Pushpangadan, Director NBRI, Lucknow
  Coordinator Dr. H.M.Behl, Dy Director NBRI, Lucknow
  Facilitator Dr. Mark Richardson, BGCI, U.K.
 
February 24 Inauguration & Introductions: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Session I : 10.00 AM : 1.00 PM
What is an "Ideal Garden" ?
  1. The botanic garden characteristics (components)
  2. Your garden: Brief presentation about garden, its assets; including uniqueness vs aims for the next 3 - 5 years by representative of individual gardens
  3. Botanic garden for whom ?
  4. Workshop on Expected Standards of Botanic Garden, Issues, Anticipated achievements
Session II : 2.00 PM : 5.00 PM
Botanic Garden as a resource center for scientific research
  1. Botanic Garden & Forestry, Horticulture, Floriculture research
  2. Botanic Garden as a major center of Taxonomical information
Biodiversity & Bioprospecting & Research mandate (A workshop)
Evening Lecture 6.45 to 7.45 PM: Herbs for all, Health for all: National Securities
Workshop Dinner: 7.30 to 9.00 PM
 
February 25 Session III: 9.00 AM to 1.00 PM
Botanic Garden with a difference
  1. Specialty gardens
  2. Landscaping a garden
  3. Eco tourism and Botanic Garden
  4. Generation of Funds in Botanic Gardens
Session IV: 2.00 PM : 5.00 PM
Botanic Garden as conservatory?
  1. What are your assets (species, ecotypes, chemotypes etc.) in the Botanic Garden ?
  2. Let us accession these assets, Garden register, GPS, Passport data, ecological status
  3. Digitization of herbarium & other information
  4. Have we identified the endangered & Red book taxa?
  5. What are the garden’s targets for conservation of the biodiversity ?
Evening Lecture 6.45 to 7.45 PM: Rights & Responsibilities (Biodiversity assets)
Dinner: 7.30 to 8.30 PM
 
February 26 Session V: 9.00 AM to 1.00 PM
Tools of conservation
  1. Listing of tools used in conservation & Botanic Garden activities (Workshop)
  2. Nursery technology, In vitro propagation as tools of conservation
  3. Microbes as tools for successful establishment
  4. Seeds as tools of conservation
  5. IPR & Biodiversity
Visit to Pant Nagar University laboratory (Microbes and in vitro) 2.00 to 3.00 PM
Session VI: 3.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Technical management of the Botanic Garden
  1. Do we have a manual of management?(Adapt Darwin manual)
  2. State of art tool and technical: irrigation, silviculture, Prunings, weed control
  3. E-access, networking
Evening Lecture 6.45 to 7.45 PM
Dinner: 7.30 to 8.30 PM
 
February 27 Session VII: 9.00 AM to 12. 00 NOON
How do we reach people?
  1. Interpretation of Botanic Garden to its visitors
  2. Identifying & classifying beneficiaries
  3. Involvement of industry
  4. Education on CBD, India Biodiversity Acts, other protocols
Field visit to PNU facility 12.00 to 1.00 PM
Session VIII: 2.00 PM to 5.00 PM
Designing a new Garden
  1. Recreating your garden (after discussions of three days)
  2. Listing constraints
Closing Function: 5.00 to 5.30 PM
 
February 28 Field trip: Optional (On payment basis at the request of participants)
 
Contact hmbehl@neem.net for further details.