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The Canadian Botanical Conservation Network - Le réseau
canadien pour la conservation de la flore is a Canadian
registered charitable organization (Revenue Canada business number
87277 5697)aiding botanical gardens, arboreta and related
organizations, individuals and others to increase their participation
in plant conservation and biodiversity programs.
This Web site and CBCN Newsletter are produced by the
Botanical Conservation office of Royal Botanical Gardens on behalf of
the Canadian Botanical Conservation Network. CBCN Newsletter
is edited by Dr David A Galbraith, Executive Director of CBCN. Unless
otherwise indicated, articles on the Web side and in CBCN Newsletter
were written by Dr Galbraith.
We welcome submissions of short articles, notices, book reviews or
any other material of interest to the plant conservation, habitat
rehabilitation and botanical collection/curation communities of
Canada and abroad. CBCN's networking functions are produced in part
through a grant from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation, the financial
assistance of Environment Canada and its Environmental Protection
Branch, Ontario Region, and the office assistance of Royal Botanical
Gardens, Hamilton/Burlington, Ontario. No reproduction of any article
or other material on our Web site or in CBCN Newsletter,
in any form or by any medium, may be made without the written
permission of the editor.
Membership in CBCN: Institutions and
individuals may apply for membership in CBCN. Full membership is
reserved for Canadian institutions maintaining collections of plants
for scientific, conservation or educational purposes. Other
institutions may apply for associate membership. For more information
on membership and institutional membership dues, please contact us at: