UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
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J.R. O'Neal Botanic Gardens: The gardens provide opportunities for education and outreach, research, and tourism. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew have supported such initiatives for many years.  Recent workshops facilitated by RBG Kew have covered seed collection for the millenium seedbank project. RBG Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank holds collections of threatened and endemic plants from several UK Overseas Territories, including endemic and endangered plants from BVI. You can view a video about RBG Kew's seed collection work in BVI on the RBG Kew website or on YouTube

Collecting seeds of threatened species in Anegada


© RBG Kew
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