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As the importance of green spaces to human health becomes ever more apparent, a new free online course by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and University of Leeds shows how nature-based solutions can enhance the lives of those living in urban environments.
Find out more at bit.ly/3CbL4st
7 ways to help reverse nature loss in summer ⬇️
Climate change and nature loss are huge global threats. In Scotland we've lost nearly 25% of our wildlife. But if we all take action and #MakeSpaceForNature we CAN make a difference.
For 7 MORE ways go to nature.scot/makespace 💚
Starting tomorrow, visit Inverleith House for RBGE Creative Programmes's In The Eddy of the Stream.
A Cooking Sections and #Sakiya collaboration where they create their own eddies; sheltered areas where water flows back upstream against the current.
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🧬 The 5th European Conservation Genetics meeting (European Conservation Genetics Meeting) has been organised by the University of Edinburgh (@EdinburghUni), the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (@rzss) and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (@TheBotanics).
📍 Edinburgh.
🔗 consgen.org
“Now is the time for scientists and conservation horticulturists to place greater priority on parasitic plants.' - Chris Thorogood, Chris Thorogood
Follow the link below to learn more:
journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/articl…
📷: Chris Thorogood with Rafflesia banaoana in the Phillipines
MUST WATCH: this new video from Wellcome Sanger Institute features some of the amazing science and scientists working on #DarwinTreeOfLife 🧬
It's a snapshot of the tireless work being undertaken by our partners the length and breadth of these islands.
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With a new season of #DarwinTreeOfLife fieldwork just around the corner, our scientists reflect on some species collected last year which they're excited to see full #genome sequence data from in 2022! 🧬
Wytham Genome Project Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Natural History Museum Science MBA - Marine Biological Association
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1yr ago today first shipment of precious samples down to Wellcome Sanger Institute for high-quality #genome sequencing and #DNA R&D for #DarwinTreeOfLife 🥳 12 shipments, 250 species later still excited @RBGE_Science to be part of this amazing project. And there's more to come 🌿🌳🌻🍄
Seasonal harvest from the kitchen garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh heading to the gateway café now! Leeks, squash, chard, edible flowers, spinach, mixed salad leaves, beetroot, purple sprouting broccoli and (surely the last?) courgettes
At what age should we aim to start inspiring the next generation with the importance of plants? Join us for an insightful talk from Suzanne Hermiston who explores engaging nursery children with nature: tinyurl.com/2aucyzu4 University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum #obg400 #EducationisKey #OurFutureIsBotanic
Showing importance of partnership for @RBGE_Science Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Kunming Institute of Botany
How UK and China's botanical cooperation is helping to preserve plant diversity Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh RBGE Press Office
First time in the research collection Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for over a year. The amazingly diverse Begonia collection is doing well as we prepare for our glasshouse transformation under the BIOMES project. Here are B. isoptera (left and top), B. arfakensis (bottom) and B. labordei.
BOOK NOW for ‘Horticultural Appropriation’, an online discussion on 19 October between Head of Creative Programmes, Emma Nicolson and organic food grower and writer CLAIRE | RATINON on the necessity of bringing a decolonial lens to the practice of horticulture.
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