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FOLIOTECA: OUR DOCUMENTS
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1. A BOTANIC GARDEN’S ORGANIZATIONAL
HANDBOOK
by Alberto Gomez Mejia
Following are the main guidelines to keep in
mind when creating, organizing and setting up a Botanic Garden.
- Know what a Botanic Garden is.
- Know what the purpose of a Botanic Garden is.
- Know how the Botanic Gardens function in the
world.
- Know exactly where the Botanic Garden is going to
be located.
- Determine the nature of the Botanic Garden.
- Decide what kind of institution the Botanic
Garden will be.
- Design and plan a financial support strategy for
the Botanic Garden.
- Process the legal recognition and registration of
the Botanic Garden.
- Be aware of the institutions and organizations
that the Botanic Garden can cooperate with.
- Associate the Botanic Garden to the leading
institutions on botany.
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2. CHRONOLOGY OF THE TRUSTWORTHY HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
THE LAW CONCERNING BOTANIC GARDENS
by Alberto Gómez Mejía
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The chronology begins in
September 1994 when Mr. Alberto Gómez Mejía, attorney and President of Quindio Botanic
Garden, presents the first draft of a project to the Representative Gonzalo Botero.
“In this project, he declares of public interest and use the Colombian floral
resources, establishes special recognition for the Botanic Gardens, and gives other
considerations.” Among others, the main features of that proposal are its proper
justification, its relevance to the needs of this country’s biodiversity, and its
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Due to the critical support of various staff
members of the Botanic Garden in Bogota, of some members of the National Congress, of some
members of the Department of Environment, and of the National Government in general, and
after several efforts and corrections to the original document, finally in July 1996, the
former President of Colombia Dr. Ernesto Samper, approved the law 299, “which
protects the Colombian floral resources, establishes regulations for the Botanic Gardens,
and gives other considerations”.
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3. MODEL OF STATUTES FOR BOTANIC GARDENS
by Alberto Gómez Mejía
The following is the proposed organizational
regulations for the Botanic Garden’s set up.
Chapter I
General Characteristics
Chapter II General
Assembly
Chapter III Board of
Directors
Chapter IV Employees
Chapter V
Miscellaneous
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4. BASIC ELEMENTS TO BE ADOPTED AND CARRIED ON CONCERNING POLICIES
FOR COLLECTIONS AND ACCESSIONS OF PLANTS IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS
by Alberto Gomez Mejia.
The Botanic Gardens have an action frame
supported on the following three main tenets: ecological preservation, scientific
research, and environmental education. Specifying the kinds of plants of priority in the
Garden will determine the garden’s profile and will support the definition of its
institutional mission.
Every Botanic Garden that is scientifically
organized has “the appropriate plants, in the appropriate place, and in the
appropriate moment.” In order to do so, it is necessary to have a computer-based
record of each and every plant in the garden (accessions). This document summarizes the
guidelines on how to develop those aspects of the Botanic Garden.
1. Introduction
2. Mission of the Botanic
Garden
3. Reach
4. Policy’s content
4.1. Setting priorities
4.2. Praxis of the
collection
5. Vegetation Management
6. Accessions of plants
7. Responsibilities
8. Partnership for the
CITES convention
9. Bibliography
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5. STATUTES OF THE NATIONAL NET OF BOTANIC GARDENS IN COLOMBIA
The Net is described and regulated by 30
articles divided in the following 8 chapters:
Chapter
I Name, address, and purposes of the NET
Chapter II
About its members and the association
Chapter III About
rights and duties of the Net’s members
Chapter IV About
hierarchy, government, and management of the association
Chapter V About
the General Assembly
Chapter VI About the
Board of Directors and its members
Chapter VII About the
association’s equity
Chapter VIII General
Considerations
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6. HERBARIUMS IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS
by Hector E. Esquivel
Herbariums are collections of death plants
technically treated, labeled, and systematically arranged in metallic shelves. Those
plants are destined to research and instruction and are accompanied of index cards of
collectors and species, thus its importance for the identification, control, and research
in the Botanic Gardens.
This document summarizes various aspects from
the collection of specimens in the fields, to the set up and organization in the herbarium
and the main treatment processes:
1 ORGANIZATION OF AN
HERBARIUM
1.1 Location and
distribution
2 HOW TO MAKE THE
COLLECTIOS
2.1 Planning
2.2 Collection processes
3 DRYING AND DETERMINATIÓN
4 SET UP AND LOCATION OF
THE COLLECTION
5 COLLECTING AND PRESSING
FOR SPECIAL GROUPS OF
PLANTS
5.1 Palms
5.2 Lycopodium and
equisetum
5.3 Ferns
5.4 Moss, liverwort, and
lichen
5.5 How to collect
macroscopic fungi (basidiomycetes)
5.6 Suggestions for fungi
preservation
5.7 How to collect and
preserve spring water algae
5.8 Collections and
preparation of sea algae
5.9 Preservation
5.10 Drying
5.11 Treatment and set up of Chrysophytum
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6 HERBARIUM’S
MAINTENANCE
6.1 Constant updating of
the collection’s nomenclature
6.2 Exchange and loans
6.3 Spraying
7 HERBARIUM’S
MANAGEMENTS
7.1 Duties
8 NOMENCLATURE RULES
8.1 Kinds of type
8.2 Priority Principles
8.3 Requirements to reveal
a new species
8.4 Main abbreviations of
classifiers
8.5 Pronunciation of some
Greek and Latin words
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ANNEX
Taxa acknowledged by the international botanic
nomenclature code
Models
Model Nº. 1 Label
for each excicadus
Model Nº. 2
Registration cards for Collectors and Species
Model Nº. 3
Registration cards of Specimens in the Herbarium
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BGCI’s worldwide strategies for Botanic Gardens’ preservation.
8.
BGCI’s environmental education in Botanic Gardens, and some guidelines for
educational work with children and youth groups.
Go to: BGCI -
Education Program, http://www.bgci.org.uk/educcatio.htm
9. CITES
handbook for BGCI’s Botanic Gardens..
10. A
handbook for Botanic Gardens on the reintroduction of plants to the Wild.
11.
Magnetic file with information about collections of plants and statutes for NGOs. (Word
perfect 6.0) by Alberto Gomez Mejia.
12. BOTANIC GARDENS’ MANAGEMENT, PLANNING AND FINANCIAL
SUPPORT
by Carlos E. Fonseca Nossa
Being a legal entity, each Botanic Garden must
determine the size of the organization, its structure, and staff members, and must create
descriptions of positions, duties, and handbooks of procedures and control, etc. If the
Garden is already established and functioning, it must review periodically its current
procedures in order to maintain them in a constant updating and development process.
Being non-profit organizations, Botanic Gardens
need four basic elements: an action plan, marketing of services, staff members, and
financial resources. This document outlines those elements:
1. General
Considerations
2. Planning
Procedures
3.
Organizational Procedures
4. Financial
Procedures
Bibliography
Annex Nº 1 Organizational Model
Annex Nº 2 Positions and Duties Description Model:
Board of Directors
Tax Consultant
Director or Manager
Scientific Subdirectory
Secretary
Annex Nº 3 Model of Budget Organization
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13.
Commercial sponsorship and private funding for Botanic Gardens by Judith Zuk.
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