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It is estimated that up to 100,000 plants, representing more than one third of all the world’s plant species, are currently threatened or face extinction in the wild. Botanic gardens worldwide, including the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, are playing a...
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This week a four-person team from the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin returned to Dublin following the successful completion of a 17-day botanical expedition to Siberia. The expedition spent a week in the Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk regions of Siberia, travelling...
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For many garden birds the ability to survive and increase in numbers is not limited by food supply but by a lack of suitable nest sites. This is especially true when the old, dying and rotten trees, which contain most nest holes, are cut down and removed. Many of...
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Diarmuid Gavin launches Refugee Trust International’s ‘Miracle Tree’ appeal Tuesday February 20th 2006 Irish gardener and television personality Diarmuid Gavin (who originally studied at the College of Amenity Horticulture at the...
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Charles Darwin and the theory of Natural Selection The notion of evolution via genetic variation and natural selection, proposed by Charles Darwin, has become the central organizing principle in biology. Since the 1990s his birthday has been celebrated by public...
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Report on the Conference of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation (GPPC) held at the National Botanic Gardens 22-25th October 2005 The National Botanic Gardens Glasnevin hosted the 1st international conference of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation...
