Kew's Collections go digital
Taking Kew's Herbarium and Fungarium online for everyone across the globe to access.
Taking Kew's Herbarium and Fungarium online for everyone across the globe to access.
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership safeguards wild plant diversity and enables its sustainable utilisation through global partnership.
Identifying and mapping Tropical Important Plant Areas in critical sites for plant conservation across the tropics.
We lead Kew's research to expand and populate the tree of life for plants and fungi.
Connecting Wakehurst’s landscape, science, and visitors to research the value of nature for people, agriculture, and the environment.
Supporting the effective selection and use of native seed in the restoration of climate-resilient, genetically diverse plant populations in the UK.
Seed collecting and building in-country conservation capacity in five biodiverse hotspots in seven countries.
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.
Conserving some of the world’s rarest, endangered and useful tree and shrub species as well as conducting vital tree conservation research in order to retain a significant resource for humanity.
The DEFRA-funded Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate project: 'Realising the potential of plants as nature-based solutions in African biodiversity hotspots'
Towards developing a resilient Ethiopian crop into a key resource for the future in both its home country and the rest of Africa.
Capturing, protecting and restoring plant diversity in the UK, expanding the national repository for native seeds and making our collections, data and expertise available to support research, conservation and restoration work.
Cataloging genetic diversity within a single plant species, and building a computational framework to support its analysis and visualisation.
Understanding the effects of dry forest degradation and fires on biodiversity to inform accelerated forest restoration by local communities in Ankarafantsika National Park.
Establishing a global genebank network to sustainably unlock the genetic diversity of food crops for future generations and make them intuitively accessible for modern breeding programmes
Collecting and protecting the wild relatives of the world’s most important food crops to safeguard our future food security in a changing climate.
Taxonomic research into this diverse plant family is helping to inform plant conservation planning in Africa.
Linking crops, landscapes, and heritage in Ethiopia and Guinea
Conserving more than 500 species from the European Alps by collecting seeds and storing them ex situ in seed banks.
Providing an updated, fully synonymized, annotated systematic checklist of the Compositae of Bolivia, available online and in print as a precursor to a Flora account of the family.
Mapping pollen phytosterols through space and time in the UK landscape, and elucidating the importance of phytosterols as essential nutrients for wild bee diversity
Utilising Kew’s botanical expertise to assess habitats proposed for conservation under Angola’s Protected Areas Expansion Strategy.
Enhancing the conservation of Australia’s flora
Conservation and sustainable development with communities in the Chimanimani forest belt.