Andrew Budden

Species Conservation Assessor

Department

Team

Biography

My role as Species Conservation Researcher for the State of the World’s Plants project involves using the resources at Kew to better understand species that have been selected as part of the Sampled Red List Index. My focus is on African and Oceanian species and I collect data from herbarium specimens at Kew and elsewhere, and georeference them to generate maps of species’ distribution. I research the literature for each species to provide as full a picture as possible about them, including the threats that face them to enable my Assessor colleagues to complete comprehensive assessments to be published on the IUCN Red List.

Qualifications and appointments

BSc (Hons) Environmental Biology, University of Plymouth

Projects

Kew’s Plant Assessment Unit

Accelerating the identification of plants threatened with extinction and increasing the knowledge available on the conservation status of less well-represented groups on the IUCN Red List.

Kew’s Plant Assessment Unit