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PROJECTS AND Y DOCUMENTS


The current Projects and Documents contemplated in the NET are the following:

Document’s collection "Folioteca"
National Project for Botanic Gardens
National Strategy for Information Management
National Strategy to Handle Information about Live Collections in the Colombian Botanic Gardens
An example for interchange information
Guide for botanic gardens in education for sustainability

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DOCUMENTS COLLECTION "FOLIOTECA"

If you want to build a Botanic Garden or consolidate the one you already have, the NET is willing to assist and advice you with basic guidelines, but before taking further action it is necessary that you read our DOCUMENTS COLLECTION denominated "FOLIOTECA".

The DOCUMENTS COLLECTION "FOLIOTECA" is a series of documents that describes the creation, functioning and legal procedures of the Botanic Gardens in Colombia.

Contents:

  1. A Botanic Garden’s organizational hand book
  2. Chronology of the trustworthy history of the establishment of the law concerning Botanic Gardens
  3. Model of statutes for NGOs (non-government organizations) and relevant abstracts of the Decree No. 2150, issued in 1995.
  4. Basic elements to be adopted and carried on concerning policies for collections and accessions of plants in the Botanic Gardens
  5. Statutes of the Net of Botanic Gardens in Colombia
  6. Herbariums in the Botanic Gardens
  7. 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.
  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.
  12. Botanic Gardens’ management, planning and financial support
  13. Commercial sponsorship and private funding for Botanic Gardens.
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NATIONAL PLAN FOR BOTANIC GARDENS

The Law 299 established, additionally, the development of a National Plan for Botanic Gardens in order to consolidate the Botanic Gardens in Colombia and fortify their activities of research, preservation, and environmental education. For this reason, ten strategies were defined:.

Content
Note for the reader
Vision
Mission
Strategic Plan for the Botanic Gardens
1. Strategic Planning
2. Preservation
3. Research
4. Environmental Education and Information
5. Geographic Representation
6. Training
7. Informational Systems
8. Inter-institutional Coordination
9. Positive Rights
10. Financial Strategy
Acknowledgments

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NATIONAL STRATEGY TO HANDLE INFORMATION ABOUT LIVE COLLECTIONS IN THE COLOMBIAN BOTANIC GARDENS


Through nets and national and international organizations, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) has lead the creation and establishment of informational systems to handle and exchange data about live collections in the Botanic Gardens. In this way, the Botanic Gardens contribute to produce and keep information about worldwide vegetal resources.

This document is an answer to that process and intends to establish principles and methodologies for the development of a national strategy to handle information about live collections. This strategy is an important tool to fortify the Botanic Gardens and institutions of the National Environmental System in Colombia and to favor preservation of the country’s floral resources.

Document’s structure:
 

Introduction
General Ideas
        Systems and Informational Nets
        Systematization in the Botanic Gardens
        Computer Programs to Handle Information
Conceptual Elements of the Strategy
        Live Collection
        Accession
        ITF
Strategy’s Guide
        Purpose
        Strategy’s Main Objective
        Targets
Principles
Procedures
        1. Gather Information
        2. Process Information
        3. Exchange Information
Implementation
        Handling Information System
        Information Exchange Protocol
        Fortification Areas
Strategy’s Perspectives
Quoted Literature
Annex 1. Institutions Involved
Annex 2. Form to register information

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BGRecorder2 System’s characteristics:
Window of BGRecorder2 in spanish
  • System created to handle and store information about live collections in botanic gardens.
  • Developed by BGCI (Botanical Garden Conservation International).
  • Supported by MS Access as database for Windows.
  • First version in Spanish.
  • Version with modifications in the user’s interface- database, making differences in the profile level through records’ browses, additions or modifications.
  • Created as a communication process with all the Colombian Botanic Gardens members of the national net.
  • Works as an exchange tool according to the regulations of the National Strategy to Handle Information in the Botanic Gardens.
  • Database user’s handbook.
BGRecorder2 database user’s handbook in spanish
 

 

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HANDLING AND SYSTEMATIZATION OF INFORMATION IN THE COLOMBIAN BOTANIC GARDENS

The organizations developing this project are Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI), The National Net of Botanic Gardens, The Institute Alexander von Humboldt, with all the Botanic Gardens in Colombia and, as financial sponsor and support Darwin Initiative. Humboldt Institut
Botanic Gardens Conservation International The systematization project seeks to fortify the role of the Botanic Gardens in the preservation and sustainable use of the vegetal diversity in Colombia. For this reason, a Spanish version of the BGRecorder2 has been created, and members of the Botanic Gardens have been trained in handling the databases of life collections and exchange information.
This project has given the Botanic Gardens reinforcement in the subject of preservation in order to assure that the information about biodiversity collections is handled efficiently and is available. Also, it has provided training for the Colombian professionals in botany and has promoter a wide cooperation and technical exchange among Colombian Institutions involved in preserving the biodiversity in Colombia. Net of Botanic Gardens of Colombia
Darwin Initiative The following are the results of the systematization project so far: Development of a Spanish version of the BGRecorder2; Six training workshops in the Botanic Gardens concerning handling of information; Creation, establishment and publication of the Strategy to Handle Information in the Colombian Botanic Gardens; Creation of 11 databases in 11 Botanic Gardens in a partnership among the National Net, the Institute and each Botanic Garden; 20.000 systematized records about life collections registered in the main information system for Botanic Gardens in Colombia


An example for Exchange Information

We show an example of the living collection of 4 botanic gardens of Colombia (update september 2000):

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Bogotá

Manizales

Medellín

Popayán

Quindío

TOTAL

Number of accessions

1260

450

718

526

539

 2964

Number of familys

114

48

77

31

47

151

Number of species

374

58

216

152

104

689

Familys more frequencies ARECACEAE FAGACEAE
CECROPIACEAE		 HELICONIACEAE ORCHIDACEAE ARECACEAE ORCHIDACEAE
Species more frequencies Ceroxylon quindiuense Quercus humboldtii,
Cecropia teleincana		 Heliconia sp.
Codiaeum variegatum		 Cattleya trianae
C. schroederae		 Arecaceae sp. Ceroxylon quindiuense,
Quercus humboldtii


  Search in database of alive collections by plant name:

Write the specie or genera name


Write the family name

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GUIDE FOR BOTANIC GARDENS IN EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Botanic Gardens Conservation International created a document acknowledging the “pivotal role” that the Botanic Gardens play in Education for Sustainability (EfS). This document complements the Guidelines about Environmental Education in the Botanic Gardens (Willison & Greene, 1994) and the International Agenda of Preservation in the Botanic Gardens (Wyse Jackson & Sutherland, 2000).

Analyzing the meaning of sustainability and EfS, the guidelines provide a clear frame to view education in the Botanic Gardens, provide an overview of what Botanic Gardens can offer to the EfS along with the challenges that they face, and give some advice on the subject.

This document also acknowledges the Botanic Gardens’ potential of becoming models for sustainability and explains a process to carry this on. It is essential for Botanic Gardens to develop associations with local, regional, national and international organizations in order to cooperate with the EfS.

Education for Sustainability, EfS, is an emerging holistic process that focuses on development and environmental issues for the 21st century. These guidelines are designed to help Botanic Gardens to develop their perception about those issues and contribute to a sustainable life.

Following are the contents:
 

  • Foreword
  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Development of these guidelines
  • Aims of the Guidelines
  • Target audiences
  • Sustainability - a modern conundrum
  • Education for sustainability
  • Within which worldview does EfS fit?;
    • What do botanic gardens have to offer EfS?
    • What are the challenges?
    • Weak or strong EfS?

Education, Bucaramanga

  • Developing an EfS strategy for your garden
    • Who should be involved?
    • Who are we educating?
    • Sustainability - agreeing on the definition
    • Foundations of EfS
    • Learning goals
    • Themes
    • Educational approaches
    • Educational resources
    • Evaluation

In Bucaramanga

  • The botanic garden as a model for sustainability
  • Conducting a green audit
  • Partnerships
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Case Studies
    • Acknowledgements/Contributors
    • References
    • Books
    • Useful Addresses

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