Plant Conservation for the Next Decade:
A Celebration of Kew's 250th Anniversary 12-16 October 2009
The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is 250 and is hosting a celebratory scientific conference from 12 - 16 October 2009, to mark the occasion. The exciting programme will include three days of scientific sessions, showcasing Kew's conservation research and inviting leading international research scientists to present papers on a variety of conservation themes including:
- Plant conservation: policies and politics
- Plant conservation: management and restoration
- Plant conservation and human cultures
- Plant conservation and agriculture
- Frontiers of plant conservation technology
- Plant conservation: what can we afford to lose?
Keynote speakers
- Dr Joseph Cobbinah
- Dr Saw Leng Guan
- Professor Richard Hobbs
- Professor Hongwen Huang
- Professor Michael E Kane
- Ms Sara Oldfield
- Dr Peter Raven
- Dr Judy West
- Professor Stephen Hopper
- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance
- Professor Sir Peter Crane
Kew's current and previous Directors
