2023 BGCI/ArbNet Partnership Programme Award Recipients Announced

ArbNet is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 BGCI/ArbNet Partnership Programme.

This funding opportunity supports the development of international collaborations between gardens and arboreta for the purpose of exchanging skills, resources and expertise to advance tree conservation. We are excited to see what these partnerships will accomplish over the next year.

Below are the names of the awarded recipients.

Tree Heritage Park (Nigeria) and Integrated Resource Management Association (AGIR)

Project: Digitized tree labelling and capacity building in the Tree Heritage Park

Yerevan Botanic Garden–Institute of Botany after A.L. Takhtajyan (Armenia) and The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Botanical Garden (Ukraine)

Project 1: Conserving unique and ancient woody plant specimens in botanical garden collections through propagation of knowledge and interactive signage (part I)

Yerevan Botanic Garden–Institute of Botany after A.L. Takhtajyan (Armenia) and Kulob Botanic Garden (Tajikistan)

Project 2: Armenian-Tajik initiative for the ex situ conservation of regionally endemic and endangered wild crop relatives and ornamental trees (part II)