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