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!)
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
🧵 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
🚨🌿 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
@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?
Privilege to attend @CITES Plants Committee last week as part of the UK delegation as the UK CITES flora scientific authority with @KewScience @DefraGovUK
#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
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!
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.