Unveiling Darwin's treasures: specimens from historic voyage make television debut
21 March 2024200-year-old plant specimens from the Voyage of the Beagle, held in the University's herbarium archives, make their television debut.
Planting ideas: Botanic Garden opens access with living collections portal
02 October 2020A new web portal to Cambridge University Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global research.
World's botanic gardens contain a third of all known plant species, and help protect the most threatened
25 September 2017The most in-depth species survey to date finds an “astonishing array” of plant diversity in the global botanic garden network, including 41% of all endangered species. However, researchers find a significant imbalance between tropical and temperate plants, and say even more capacity should be given to conservation, as there is “no technical reason for plant species to become extinct”.
