Professor Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), will give the 2011 Annals of Botany Lecture. Professor Blackmore will talk about the conservation work that RBGE is doing in China, through the Jade Dragon Field Station near Lijiang.
The project’s aim is to work on the conservation of habitats, plants and other organisms, which live and depend upon the biodiversity hotspot of the Yulong Xue Shan (Jade Dragon Snow Mountain) in China’s Yunnan province.
The Yunnan region, in the far southwest of China, is one of the most important places in the world for unique plants but its richness is threatened by climate change and development.
In 1995 it was named a centre for plant diversity. Over 15,000 species of high altitude plants grow on its mountains and 2,500 grow only in this region.
Tickets priced at friends £6, non-members £8.50, include refreshments. Please send an SAE and cheque payable to ‘University of Bristol’ in an envelope marked ‘Annals of Botany Lecture’ to the University of Bristol Botanic Garden, Hollybush Lane, Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 1JB or tickets will be available on the door.
Further information is available from the Botanic Garden, tel 0117 331 4906 or email botanic-gardens@bristol.ac.uk
The 2011 Annals of Botany Lecture Jade Dragon: The story of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in China organised by the University of Bristol’s Botanic Garden will take place on Thursday 29 September at 7.30 pm in the University of Bristol’s Wills Hall Conference Centre, Parry’s Lane, Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 1AE. Parking will be available on Stoke Park Road with access to the Wills Hall Conference Centre through the Botanic Garden.