IABG INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANT CONSERVATION IN CHINA
China is one of the richest countries in plant biodiversity in the world and also has a high level of endemism. However, plant diversity in China is increasingly threatened due to rapid industrialization, extensive urbanization, and explosive economic growth. Twenty percent of China's total higher plants are threatened with extinction. As a result, effective protection of plant diversity is a major problem and challenge that has to be faced. Part of this meeting will focus on an assessment of China’s existing plant conservation policy and the state of implementation. It will also discuss current problems, how to develop a plant conservation programme that takes into account the special characteristics of the Chinese situation and context, and ways of promoting cooperation between plant conservation research institutions and nature reserves, with a view to ensuring the conservation of Chinese plant resources through the adoption of efficient and effective procedures and protocols. These concerns are also faced by the rest of the world, and we warmly welcome leading plant conservation experts and researchers from abroad to share with us their experience, and join with key Chinese experts and with the leaders and plant protection specialists from the State Forestry Administration, provincial and municipal forestry bureaus in exploring these issues and proposing solutions.
Theme of the Conference: Reassessment of China's strategy for plant conservation
Topics include:
？ Analysis and assessment of the state of plant conservation in China
？ Developing a plant conservation network that integrates protected areas with botanical gardens
？ Proposing a conservation strategy suited to the Chinese situation and context and the formulation of the key elements of a revised national strategy for plant conservation and an implementation plan
Time: November 8-11, 2016
Address: Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden / Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (3888 Chenhua Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, China 201602)
Hotel：Dazhong International Conference Hotel
(1515 Shetiankun Road, Songjiang, Shanghai, China 201602, Tele：86-21- 57795555)
Language: English or Chinese
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Vernon Heywood, President of IABG; University of Reading, UK
Prof. Hongwen Huang, General Secretary of IABG, South China Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Prof. Xiaoya Chen, Academician, Director of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, China
Prof. YuangangZu, Northeast Forestry University, China
Invited speakers:
Dr. Mora Aronsson, Chair of the Plants Europa network, Swedish Species Information Centre, Sweden
Dr. Linda Broadhurst, Director of Australian National Herbarium, Australia
Prof. Jiakuan Chen, Fudan University, China
Prof. Xiaoyong Chen, East China Normal University, China
Dr. Tim Entwisle, Director of Royal Botanical Garden, Australia
Dr. Patrick Griffith, Executive Director of Montgomery Botanical Center, USA
Dr. Kayri Havens, Medard & Elizabeth Welch Director of Chicago Botanical Garden, USA
Prof. Yonghong Hu, Executive Director of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, China
Dr. Juan Jiménez, Head of the Wildlife Service Autonomous regional government of Valencia, Spain
Prof. Haining Qin, Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Prof. Hai Ren, Director of South China Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Dr. Paul Smith, General Secretary of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), UK
Prof. Weibang Sun, Director of Kunming Botanical Garden, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Prof. Sergei Volis, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Prof. Zhixiang Zhang, Beijing Forestry University, China
Provisional Programme and Schedule:
Nov 7, Monday
13:00-21:30 Registration at hotel
18:00-20:00 Dinner at hotel
Nov 8, Tuesday--Current status and problems of plant conservation in China
8:00-9:30 Registration and setting up posters at the Symposium
9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:00-10:30 Tea break and Group Photo
10:30-11:30 Keynote Speech: Plant conservation – challenges and future prospects
by Prof. Vernon H Heywood
11:30-12:00 TBD by Prof. Jiakuan Chen
12:00-13:30 Lunch and Poster Presentation
13:30-14:30 Keynote Speech: TBD by Prof. Hongwen Huang
14:30-15:00 Maintenance and management of botanic garden living collections
by Dr. Patrick Griffith
15:00-15:30 Tea and Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Reintroduction of rare and endangered plants in China by Prof. Hai Ren
16:00-16:30 Getting Plant Conservation Right (or not): the Case of the US?
by Dr. Kayri Havens
16:30-17:00 Rescuing PSESP (Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations) in China: its past, present and future by Prof. Weibang Sun
17:00-17:30 A critical assessment of Plant Micro-reserves (PMR) by Dr. Juan Jimenez
17:30-19:30 Welcome Dinner
Nov 9, Wednesday--Techniques and protocols of plant conservation
8:30-12:00 Keynote Speech: The sustainable use of plant resources
by Prof. Xiaoya Chen
9:30-10:00 Adapting a world-renowned botanical garden landscape to climate change
by Dr. Tim Entwisle
10:00-10:30 Tea and Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Development of protected areas on protection of wild plants in China
by Prof. Zhixiang Zhang
11:00-11:30 Developing and agreeing protocols for seed banking of wild species
by Dr. Paul Smith
11:30-12:00 Some lessons from the red list assessment of China flora by Prof. Haining Qin
12:00-13:30 Lunch and Poster Presentation
13:30-14:30 Keynote Speech TBD by Prof. Yuangang Zu
14:30-15:00 Australian experience of threatened plant species conservation & recovery
by Dr. Linda Broadhurst
15:00-15:30 Tea and Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 TBD by Prof. Xiaoyong Chen
16:-0-16:30 Quasi-in situ and other intermediate approaches by Prof. Sergei Volis
16:30-17:00 Current status and strategy of plant species with extremely small population in eastern China by Prof. Yonghong Hu
17:00-17:30 Integration of species-based and habitat based approach by Dr. Mora Aronsson,
17:30-19:30 Dinner
Nov 10, Thursday Round-table discussion
9:00-11:.30 1. Tour Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden
2. Round-table discussion：Chinese Plant Conservation Strategy
11:30-13:30 Lunch and Poster Presentation
13:30--17:00 Round-table discussion：Chinese Plant Conservation Strategy
17:00-19:00 Dinner
Nov 11, FRIday Closing Ceremony
9:00-10:.30 Presentation of outline of revised Chinese Strategy for Plant Conservation
Speech by the leader of State Forestry Administration of China
Concluding remarks by Prof. Heywood
IABG International Symposium on Plant Conservation in China is organised/supported in collaboration with the following institutions:
International Association of Botanic Gardens, IABG
Chinese Union of Botanical Gardens, CUBG
Department of Wildlife Conservation and Nature Reserve Management
State Forestry Administration of China
Shanghai Municipal Administration of Afforestation & City Appearance
Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden (Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, CAS)
IABG-Asian Division
South China Botanical Garden
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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