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High Society - the culture and history of mind-altering drugs
by: Mark Nesbitt, Economic Botany blog04 Jan 2011
Kew's Economic Botany Collection has been a major lender of psychoactive plants to the Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'High Society'.
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Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden announce the completion of The Plant List
29 Dec 2010
This landmark international resource is a working list of all land plant species, fundamental to understanding and documenting plant diversity and effective conservation of plants. This accomplishment is crucial to plant conservation efforts worldwide.
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Extinct to secure: how we saved Ascension’s endemic parsley fern
by: Colin Clubbe, UK Overseas Territories team blog23 Dec 2010
In the space of 17 months, the status of the tiny Ascension Island parsley fern (Anogramma ascensionis) has gone from 'thought extinct' to 'secure' because of the amazing collaborative efforts of a small group of very dedicated people.
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Students help the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership to save a species
22 Dec 2010
A rare UK native plant has been ‘adopted’ by the Uckfield Community Technology College, with the seeds safely stored in Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
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Season's Greetings from the Library, Art & Archives Team
by: David Iggulden, Library, Art and Archives blog22 Dec 2010
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011!
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UKOTs Programme achieves herbarium specimen digitisation milestone
by: Martin Hamilton, UK Overseas Territories team blog21 Dec 2010
Martin Hamilton from Kew's UK Overseas Territories team reports on the latest news about the UKOTs Programme specimen digitisation activities.
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Holly Walk's berries add festive feel
21 Dec 2010
Take a stroll down Kew's Holly Walk to see a multitude of red, black and white berries.
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The true value of nature
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog20 Dec 2010
Biodiversity loss stories do make headlines, but when and how will governments and businesses realise nature's true value and factor it into their accounts?
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New tropical mistletoe just in time for Christmas – one of many new discoveries from Kew this year
20 Dec 2010
As the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity draws to a close, scientists at Kew are celebrating the diversity of the planet’s plant and fungal life by highlighting some of the weird, wonderful and stunning discoveries they’ve made this year.
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Announcement from Defra on the Spending Review
20 Dec 2010
Defra has today made an announcement about the Spending Review across all of its Arms Length Bodies, more details of which can be found at www.defra.gov.uk.
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