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• - Information about projects, grants and funding, meetingsand members.
  
• - The Society owns and manages seven sanctuaries in New England, protecting rare species as well as examples of New England habitats. In the wild, they monitor the survival of hundreds of rare plants and provide habitat management advice and information.
  
• - Hosted by the Chicago Botanic Garden in 1999.
  
• - The wild plant charity, which carries out plant species and habitat conservation, owns and manages nature reserves, campaigns, and raises awareness through education.
  
• - Non-profit organization that provides information management and network building tools to the plant biodiversity community in North America.
  
• - Carries out ecological research aimed at gaining insight into processes at the ecosytem and population level and uses those insights to optimise nature conservation.
  
• - Study and preserves Georgia's flora through multidisciplinary research, education, and advocacy; facilitate the recovery of rare, threatened, and endangered plants of Georgia and the southeast U.S. through collaborative efforts in our state; and communica
  
• - A magazine providing information, encouragement and advice on plant conservation.
  
• - Plant Conservation Group at the University of Abertay, Dundee whose main activity is the application of biotechnological techniques to plant conservation problems.
  
• - Exhibit on cloud forest biodiversity conservation from the Strybing Arboretum Society. Details on rare and endangered plant species, collaborations with institutions world-wide and plant collecting expeditions to Southeast Asia.
  
• - Housing the largest living plant collection in the world, Kew Gardens also undertakes reaserch into taxonomy, economic and ethnobotany and conservation.
  
• - Information on the conservation of the biodiversity of garden plants for the benefit of horticulture, education and science.
  
• - The majority of land at The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, Ohio, is maintained in a natural state. Even though it gives the appearance of being untouched, crucial management decisions are always being made to maintain the diversity and health of these areas.
  
• - Information from the Gloucestershire group of the NCCPG including a newsletter, the programme for 2002, photographs and contact details.
  
• - Seagrass restoration using patented planting and fertilization techniques. Services, photos, and contact information.
  
• - Aims to protect, enhance and increase native vegetation in Australian landscapes, and is a key Program of the Commonwealth Natural Heritage Trust.
  
• - A national consortium of 28 botanical gardens and arboreta dedicated to saving America's endangered plants.
  
• - A small unit within the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Science, undertaking research and extension and post-graduate teaching directed at improving the conservation status of the Cape Floristic Region.
  
• - Provides information about marine algae and marine Spermatophytes growing on the coasts of Ryukyu archipelago
  
• - A registered charitable organization which helps conserve biological diversity through networking tools and conservation programs for botanical gardens and arboreta.
  
• - Dedicated to Protecting, Conserving, and Restoring Maryland's Native Plants and Habitats.
  
• - Provides technical guidance, data and support for botanic gardens in almost 100 countries worldwide.
  
• - A program for the in situ and ex situ conservation of Washington's rare plants.
  
• - Information for the gardener about plant classification, structure, anatomy, physiology and a section on plant conservation.
  
• - Information on the threats to bryophyte populations.
  
• - A voluntary alliance of over 65 botanists, private institutions, and government agencies, organized to promote the recovery of New England's endangered flora.
  
• - Threatened Plant Conservation of Mt Bruce.
  
• - Objectives are to develop, maintain, and co-ordinate a national network of organisations and individuals, promoting co-operation and information exchange for plant conservation and contribute to the recovery and long term survival of threatened plants.
  
• - Responsible for acquiring, characterising, maintaining, evaluating, documenting and distributing genetic resources of agricultural and horticultural crops, including wild species.
  
• - The CNPS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of California native plants through education, science, horticulture and advocacy.
  
• - Conservation policy and aims and links to current projects.