Upcoming activities:
2024
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Past activities:
2023/2
Tools for Tree Conservation Workshops in Chiang Mai and Hanoi. In October 2023, ACTG took part in teaching two tree conservation workshops at the Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and the Vietnam National University of Forestry in Hanoi. The workshops were organized by BGCI & the Morton Arboretum, with fundeing from National Geographic. With participants from many countries in the region, we had a successful 2 weeks with conservation milestones on mapping of new individuals for ongoing assessments, fruitful project discussions and new collaborations! More updates and impressions to follow here later!]
2023/1
Late 2022, Dr Joeri Strijk was invited to attend the International Conservation Symposium 2023 organized by the Ecological Society of Taiwan and the National Forestry Department. The meeting, entitled ‘The Ecological Value and Plant Diversity of Southeastern Taiwan”, was organized in March 2023 in Taipei and featured Taiwanese and International experts from the International Oak Society, Global Conservation Consortium for Oak, and Botanic Gardens Conservation International. The meeting, stretching out over 11 days, involved joint vegetation surveys of highly diverse forest sites and discussions on species persistence, the critical threats facing plant diversity, and the obstacles to conservation efforts in southeastern Taiwan. The visit was closed with a full-day symposium and press conference in Taipei. You can read the whole article and trip report on the website of the International Oak Society (IOS) here. Species pages for all taxa found on Taiwan can be viewed on the Asian Fagaceae web portal here.
2021
In October and November 2021, Dr Joeri Strijk (ACTG) took part in teaching Online Identification Workshops organized by the Global Conservation Consortium for Dipterocarpaceae (GCCD) and Oaks (GCCO). These workshops consist of a series of free online seminars which can be joined separately, treating the major groups and differences between species in the various regions. Please click on the banner below to find more information on the consortia for Dipterocarps and Oaks.
2018
In September 2018, ACTG members joined BGCI and FFI in organising a Fagaceae Identification and Red Listing workshop at Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden in Laos. Over the course of a week, lectures covered topics such as how to identify the major Fagaceae genera using slides and specimens, the latest advances in genomics and taxonomy of Fagaceae and active training on conservation assessments using the IUCN Red Listing criteria. Go to the PTK blog to read more on the workshop and it’s participants below.