Partnerships & Funding

Partnerships

To develop this work we collaborate with partners that are amongst the largest herbaria in the region, such as the Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau (CEPEC), the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (HUEFS) and the Instituto Pernambucano de Pesquisas Agropecuárias (IPA). Such institutes have a high concentration of one of our direct user-groups, plant taxonomists, who provide us with fundamental feedback on the quality and usefulness of the information and images repatriated.

This project is part of the Biodiversity Subprogramme of the Plantas of Nordeste Project (PNE), a bilateral collaboration between RBG Kew and the Associação Plantas do Nordeste - APNE, supported by the Brazilian and UK governments, among other partners.

Funding

The Northeastern Brazil Repatriation of Herbarium Data is a three year project funded by BAT (British American Tobacco), in continuation of an initial pilot project, which was funded by the UK government's Darwin Initiative.