Investing in Nature India - Training Workshop : “Managing Botanic Gardens in India”

As part of HSBC’s Investing in Nature partnership, Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI) has launched an international programme for botanic gardens. The programme operates at the global level, implementing the International Agenda for Botanic Gardens in Conservation as well as specific in-country programmes in various parts of the world including Investing in Nature-India (IIN-India).

NBRI in collaboration with BGCI will be organizing six workshops over the next two years under IIN-India programme, for capacity building and to enhance the role of botanic gardens in the conservation of plant diversity of India.

Botanic Gardens have assumed a great significance in the world today as they play an important role in environmental education and promoting public awareness on the need to protect nature through sustainable use of plant resources. Botanic gardens also serve as repositories of threatened plants, many of which may have food value, medicinal value or socio economic value and, as such, of utmost importance to human kind. The scientific concept of using botanic gardens for conservation is rapidly gaining ground all over the world. Botanic gardens perform a wide range of functions: scientific research, economic, educational, aesthetics, recreational, cultural etc. However, its role in conservation of germplasm resources, particularly of rare and endangered plants is being increasingly realized the world over. This role has been further strengthened with the development of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) under the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD).