Emma Williams

On the blue app as botanyemma Botanist @KewGardens. Views are my own.

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Deciding to post less here for now, check my account on the other app "botanyemma" for more plant related tweets

[UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) @ukwildlifecrime]

Wonderful public! Share our #ChristmasMessage & help #birdsofprey
#WildlifeCrime in progress? 999.
Suspected crime with evidence at scene or suspect nearby? 101.
Non urgent-report online.
Pass info about a person to police anonymously or @CrimestoppersUK
#OpOwl #OperationOwl

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Want to understand what digitial sequence information means? Read this easy to understand blog from
@KewScience
https://t.co/ndT7KLMX45

[Roberta Gargiulo @RobertaGargiu10]

Part of the RBG Kew @KewScience delegation is already at #COP16 @UNBiodiversity in Cali
Find us at the UK Biodiversity Alliance booth to hear more about our mission to protect plants 🌿 and fungi 🍄(and if you find me you'll hear a lot about genetic diversity too!)

[SCB @Society4ConBio]

New special issue of @ConBiology out now!
Explore "Beyond Charismatic Megafauna in Illegal Wildlife Trade" in Vol. 38, Issue 5.
Learn how conservation efforts are tackling trade in lesser-known species. 🐾🌿 Read more: https://t.co/CpoifT2Fvf
#WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity

[Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar @LatinOrchidBot]

🧵 Extremely excited to share our updated #Orchid Tree of Life poster, led by @kewgardens and inc. over 40 coauthors! It showcases the latest relationships, origin timings of major groups, and key facts, inc. global #species richness and those under threat of #extinction 1/2

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

@DrSDodsworth @BBKNatSci @BirkbeckScience @BirkbeckUoL Congratulations Steven!

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Great opportunity to join the comms team @KewScience and learn all about Kew Science!
https://t.co/EfkIG0XnNx

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Display of @CITES plants and resources for a talk @KewScience today!

[TRAFFIC @TRAFFIC_WLTrade]

🚨🌿 Unwitting online shoppers are pushing precious #plant species to the brink of #extinction. Find out how we're working with @kewgardens and @eBay to combat the threat: https://t.co/oWWR4SmCL4
@UKBCFs

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

@SW_Help Hi, is the 8.15 from Staines to Reading running tomorrow morning? Have booked a ticket but had an email from @thetrainline saying it was going to be cancelled. Still shows up on your website as running?

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Privilege to attend @CITES Plants Committee last week as part of the UK delegation as the UK CITES flora scientific authority with @KewScience @DefraGovUK

[CITES @CITES]

#PC27🌱 wrapped up last week with 190+ participants, 40+ agenda items & 2000+ pages of documents supporting the discussions on the #sustainabletrade and #conservation of CITES-listed #plants! 🌻

View the highlights from the joint #AC33🐾-PC27 session 📸 https://t.co/wbcYgCoo4s

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

@DrMartinCheek @KewAfrica Congratulations @MartinXanthos!

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Titan arum flowering at @kewgardens last week. They have another one that might flower this week! Keep an eye (or nose!) out!

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Cliveden house @nationaltrust Rose garden ♥️

[Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar @LatinOrchidBot]

Because it is #NationalOrchidDay (well, it was yesterday but whatever 🤪), pls have a look at
a) 5 cool facts about orchids (see vid below produced by the talented @LydiaShelWalker!)
b) the orchid tree of life (read more about it here: https://t.co/bayApp3fX7)
Please share!

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Interested in leading @KewScience Science Policy, particularly CITES, CBD and UK Policy - new role just advertised! https://t.co/gysLgbmi32

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

Congratulations @Kennedoz, great to see Ken's @KewScience Msc project published!

[Ken Wambua @Kennedoz]

Our long-awaited paper on the synopsis of #Pyrostria (#Rubiaceae) of continental #Africa has finally been published! Three new species & one subsp. are described. @DavidGoyder @IainDarbyshire1 @KewScience @KewAfrica @EAHerbarium_NMK #OpenAcess. Available: https://t.co/MZVVvJyliC

[Emma Williams @BotanyEm]

BBC News - Giant redwoods: World���s largest trees 'thriving in UK' Study by @KewScience
https://t.co/78kfXgJglB

[David Ashley @Davidwillashley]

Key to ‘regreening Madagascar’ is identifying the right places for reforestation.

Delighted to join the launch of a @KewScience project working to do just that - & the first in #Madagascar to be supported by the new 🇬🇧-funded Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate, @gcbc_org.