Primer Festival Comunitario de Conservación del Encino Arroyero Quercus brandegeei 2022
El 5 de noviembre de 2022, con el apoyo de un equipo organizado por el CIBNOR, Morton Arboretum y sus aliados, la Dirección de Ecología y Medio Ambiente, la Dirección Municipal de Educación, Divulgación y Promoción Ambiental, Fundación Franklinia, Conservation Leadership Program (CLP), CONANP y GCCO, realizaron en el parque Ecológico de Santiago, en Los […]
International oak collaborations for conservation collections and climate change planning
In working with the Global Conservation Consortium for Oak (GCCO), Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) Melbourne obtained Quercus engelmannii acorns from Jim Henrich of Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden earlier this year. Jim Henrich and RBGV worked in collaboration to ensure the safe transfer and importation of acorns into Australia. With great success […]
Oaks of the Californias’ Conservation Planning
In December 2021, with the support of an organizing team, Christy Powell (Horticulture Manager, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance) and Amy Byrne (Global Tree Conservation Coordinator, Oak Consortium, The Morton Arboretum) co-led a two-day conservation planning workshop, following the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG) Principles and Steps. […]
GCC Conservation Genetics Working Group
Effective ex situ and in situ conservation of threatened species is the core goal of the Global Conservation Consortia and ensuring that genetic diversity is optimally preserved – both in managed collections and wild populations – is a critical component of this endeavor. This requires integration of basic research and applied conservation and hence robust […]
Propagación de Encinos o Robles Prioritarios
El GCCO para la región de México y América Central invitan al primer Taller de Capacitación para la Conservación de Encinos en la región, dirigido a aquellos Jardines Botánicos de América Central y sur de México interesados en conservar e incrementar sus colecciones de Quercus in situ y ex situ. Sede: Colegio Santo Tomás de […]
Quercus boyntonii Conservation Planning
Amy Byrne and numerous organizers co-led and facilitated a species conservation planning workshop for Quercus boyntonii, a Critically Endangered oak native to Alabama, and one of the 29 priority oak species the GCCO is focusing on in the US. This workshop was virtual and held over the course of three meetings. At the workshop, species threats […]
