Plant Conservation Conference

[Clemants, Steve]

Major Plant Conservation Conference To Meet In Ireland, July, 2002

An international conference on research to promote plant conservation will
be held at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, July 8-10, 2002. Entitled
"Science for Plant Conservation - An International Conference for Botanic
Gardens"  This exciting international conference includes three days of
contributed and invited presentations, and both pre- and post-conference
trips to explore the plant diversity of Ireland. Although oriented towards
the global botanical garden community, participation by everyone interested
in plant conservation is encouraged.

Plenary Sessions include Causes of Endangerment, Monitoring, and Integrated
Conservation. Parallel Sessions include Recovery and Reintroduction,
Invasive Species, Demography & Population Management, Propagation Science,
Restoration Ecology, Sustainable Utilization, Genebanks & Seed Biology,
Pathology, and Administration & Funding.

For more information, and all registration materials, please visit the
conference Web site:

http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/science

The Second Circular includes details of the meeting, registration materials
and forms, and forms for submission of abstracts, and may be down-loaded
from the Web site as either MS Word .doc files or as Adobe Acrobat Reader
.pdf files.


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*Steven Clemants          *
*Vice President of Science*
*Brooklyn Botanic Garden  *
*1000 Washington Ave.     *
*Brooklyn, NY 11215       *
*718-623-7309             *
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