In October 2021, staff from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, lead institution of the Global Conservation Consortium for Dipterocarps, hosted an online workshop on the identification of dipterocarps in China. Following an introduction from XTBG Director Yongping Yang, various presentations and videos were shown, putting the dipterocarps of China in context, as well as introducing the collection at XTBG as well as information on dipterocarps in the wild in China. Recordings of the workshop presentations can be viewed here.
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