About Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
We are the world’s largest plant conservation network with over 870 institutions and 60,000 experts in over 100 countries.
Our members include the largest, most renowned botanical institutions on the planet – Atlanta Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, New York Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Shanghai Botanical Garden, Singapore Botanic Gardens, and the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney – but they also include many smaller botanic gardens in the world’s plant diversity hotspots.
Our network has a proven record of working with local, national and international leadership to conserve and protect tree species and to restore the ecology of landscapes.
BGCI has the people, facilities, and knowledge to prevent tree species extinctions.
BGCI is uniquely placed to deliver this important work
GlobalTreeSearch
BGCI produced and maintain the first and only comprehensive list of all of the world’s 60,000 tree species.
Global Tree Assessment
BGCI’s Tree Conservation Programme
Our Global Trees Conservation Programme is the only global programme dedicated to saving the world’s threatened tree species. 570 rare and threatened tree species have already been conserved, but there is much more work to do.
Leading the global effort on tree conservation
In five years, BGCI has:
Helped to conserve
190 threatened
tree species
Trained 4,500 people
in tree conservation
disciplines
Managed tree
conservation projects in
40 countries
