Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots in Indonesia
Seed conservation, plant extinction assessments and research on the ecology, conservation and use of Indonesia’s native flora.
IndonesiaThreatened Biodiversity Hotspots programme
Seed collecting and building in-country conservation capacity in five biodiverse hotspots in seven countries.
Department
Programme leaders
Elinor Breman
Naomi Carvey
Aisyah Faruk
Kate Hardwick
Jo Osborne
Timothy Pearce
Ian Willey
With two in five plants estimated to be threatened with extinction, the conservation of wild plant species is one of the most urgent and important environmental challenges of the 21st Century.
The Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots Programme builds on our Millennium Seed Bank Partnership to undertake a targeted programme of work to support and develop partner seed banks to safeguard rare and threatened species, particularly those which are endemic. The programme will focus on extremely biodiverse regions in Indonesia, Thailand, Mozambique, South Africa and the Caucasus, each of which faces different challenges and has differing levels of existing conservation capacity. By working closely with in-country partner organisations, we will ensure that each of the five regions has a highly focussed seed conservation facility, working to international standards which is able to support a variety of plant conservation and research initiatives nationally. This will involve the delivery of training as well as supporting the upgrade of essential seed banking infrastructure where necessary.
These countries will be major contributors to the global collection base of the MSBP. By the end of the programme, overarching national seed programmes will be in place, building long-term in-country capacity for plant conservation.
South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW)
Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM), Maputo, Mozambique
Research Center for Plant Conservation and Botanic Gardens, part of the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI)
National Botanic Gardens of Georgia
Institute of Botany, Ilia University Georgia
Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Armenia Botanical Society NGO
Genetic Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan
Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan
Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots in the Caucasus
Protecting plant diversity in the Caucasus region
Caucasus
Developing the national seed collection of South Africa
Helping to ensure the long-term survival of South Africa’s plant diversity through ex-situ conservation
Seed collection South Africa
The National Seed Conservation Programme: Mozambique
Ensuring the long-term conservation of Mozambique’s diverse and valuable plants
Mozambique seed conservation
Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.