UK Overseas Territories
UK Overseas Territories Programme
Community involvement |
We promote public awareness of the fascinating plant diversity found within the UKOTs and of conservation activities. We encourage local communities to share their knowledge of their local flora and to get involved in investigating and conserving it. |
Raising awareness of
conservation activities: in territory |
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Schools activities |
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Local communities All project newsletters are made available on the internet so that they can be accessed in territory and internationally. Kew activities have been featured in Territory newspapers, and on radio and television programmes. |
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Raising awareness of conservation
activities: internationally |
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General publicThe Life Long Learning Section of the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show provides an excellent opportunity to showcase some of our conservation work to the British Public. In 2004, a shared interest in conservation of island plants inspired staff from RBG Kew and the Eden Foundation to develop an exhibit for the Chelsea Flower Show, featuring species from oceanic islands including the British Virgin Islands. In 2005, Kew produced an exhibit called 'Message in a Bottle' which covered threatened plants from the UKOTs and highlighted the danger posed by invasive plants Plants from the UKOTs are displayed in Kew's Temperate House and also featured in an exhibition at Wakehurst Place entitled Caught in Time. Specially commissioned photograms of BVI plants, created by Angela Easterling, emphasise the delicate charms of these little known species. |
Newsletters Reports on Kew's UKOTs conservation programme are published regularly in newsletters available on the RBG Kew website and on the UKOTs Conservation Forum website.
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Find out more about community involvement in Kew's UKOTs activities:Anegada Darwin Initiative Project Essay competition with the Anegada School - winning entry: Sea grapes |