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Applications open for new Trustee
25 Apr 2013
Applications are now open for a position on the Kew Board of Trustees.
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Celebrating David Livingstone's Bicentenary
by: Lorna Cahill, Library, Art and Archives blog19 Mar 2013
To celebrate the bicentenary of African explorer David Livingstone, the Archives team reveal his connection to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and how you can see more of his letters online.
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Tracking black rhinos in Zambia
by: Paul Smith, Millennium Seed Bank blog06 Mar 2013
Critically endangered black rhino have recently been reintroduced to the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia. Paul Smith, an expert in the vegetation of the area, is helping to identify the plant species that Rhinos rely on for their survival.
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Madagascar’s palms near extinction
17 Oct 2012
Eighty three percent of Madagascar’s palms are threatened with extinction, putting the livelihoods of local people at risk – according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species released today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These findings draw on research undertaken by experts at Kew.
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UN Meeting on Biodiversity says action in support of biodiversity is urgently needed
10 Oct 2012
As the UN Meeting on Biodiversity opens in Hyderabad, India, Kew joins representatives from over 170 countries to discuss a plan of action for protecting the planet’s biodiversity.
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UK Virtual Herbarium - a pilot project
by: Sally King, Herbarium blog03 Aug 2012
Will you join Kew’s quest to unlock the information hidden behind the closed doors of our Herbarium cupboards?
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Kew and Kenyan partners go seed collecting for wild relatives of aubergine, rice and yam
29 Jun 2012
Watch our 'fly on the wall' documentary, produced by Al Jazeera, and follow Tim Pearce and Paul Kirika in Kenya, as they secure vital seed collections for the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership.
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Meet Nathaniel Wallich through his digital archive
by: Helen Hartley, Library, Art and Archives blog02 Dec 2011
This week sees the publication of a new website, funded by the World Collections Programme, which reunites collections relating to the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. Find out more about the man himself in the Directors' Correspondence collection.
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World's first night-flowering orchid is discovered
22 Nov 2011
Botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis have described the first night-flowering orchid known to science on the island of New Britain, near New Guinea.
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Monitoring the effect of an invasive pine scale insect on the national tree of the Turks and Caicos Islands
by: Sara Green, UK Overseas Territories team blog21 Nov 2011
While an introduced scale insect devastates the Caicos pine in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Sara Green, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, London investigated the impact that the insect is having on the tree’s habitat and the effectiveness of different techniques of controlling this pest.
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