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About CBCN

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:

Royal Botanical Gardens
Attention: CBCN
P.O. Box 399
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3H8 Canada

Dr Galbraith can be reached at:
Tel: (905) 527-1158, ext. 309
FAX: (905) 577-0375

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