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Carpe Plantas! Strategic Actions All Botanic Gardens Can Take to Advance Plant Conservation Flanagan
1. Are we Rowing in Circles? Christine Flanagan U.S. Botanic Garden APGA 2010
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10. 1 st Earth Day WWI WWII Civil War 911, Afg, Iraq Viet Nam 1900 2000 2050 1950 1850 Project Wild PLT 6 3 4 5 7 1 2 Human generations Industrial revolution Chemistry/physics/electronics Information Biology ? Walden A Sand County Almanac Silent Spring Inconvenient truth Last Child in the Woods Origin of species Advocates closeness to nature Advocates land ethic Nature deficit disorder Wake up call Science becomes personal
11. 1. “Ultimately, botanic gardens need to engage their visitors to challenge them intellectually and emotionally in order to change attitudes, behavior, and values ...”
12. 2. “…public understanding is necessary to engage public and political support for conservation.” Havens et al 2006 [teach them and they will become]
23. Endangered Species Act of 1973: designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation."
32. Botanic gardens, zoos, and similar institutions are positioned on the boundary, acting as a countercurrent in the stream of societal change GREATER Consumerism, Disconnection Unsustainable behavior GREATER Connection, Sustainable practices, Environmental belief systems
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