Baja California, Ensenada, Oak Conservation Workshop Trip Report
The Global Conservation Consortium for Oak (GCCO), San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA), the Ensenada Scientific Research and Higher Education Center (CICESE) and the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), successfully hosted a workshop in Baja California, Mexico, September 25-27, 2023. In this workshop, participants had the opportunity to share tools and information about oak […]
2023 APGA Conference: Metacollections Management: new approaches for improving living conservation collections workshop
The Global Conservation Consortia are excited to be part of the American Public Gardens Association 2023 Annual Conference hosting a workshop, ‘Metacollection Management: new approaches for improving living conservation collections’, on June 5th. We have provided a series of resources that support the themes and topics that will be presented on during the workshop; we […]
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. […]
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 […]
