
Iain Darbyshire
@iaindarbyshire1
Research botanist at RBG Kew: 🌿African Acanthaceae, Important Plant Areas 🌺| Keen birder, all-round naturalist | 🦁 Aston Villa 🙌🏼 | Views are my own 🌹
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14-06-2013 12:23:53
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Great to.see the students really getting to grips with all the different characters and challenges of the 33 plant families they have learnt this week! @KewScience HerbierGuinee Biodiversity Challenge Funds


Plantlife' own NicolaPlantlife will be on a panel in Colombia discussing the new Global Strategy for Plant Conservation! 📆If you're at #CoP16Colombia, stop by on Tuesday the 22nd at 11.40 am UN Biodiversity #PlantConservation #KMGBF 🇨🇴



We welcome Ruth Davis as the UK's 1st special envoy for nature & look forward to working with them to put nature’s recovery at the top of the UK Gov agenda🌺 With 2 in 5 plant species at risk of extinction across the world, we need rapid action now 👇 plantlife.org.uk/press-and-medi…

Début de la formation sur #L'identification des familles de #plantes tropicales à Sérédou en collaboration avec #IRAG, @KewAfrica et MO Botanical Garden Biodiversity Challenge Funds Charlotte Couch


This may be useful now as many Rumex have seeds now but no leaves. I used it today to identify R. conglomeratus from a dried up skeleton of a plant. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland



EXCLUSIVE - covert investigation breaks new ground on how grouse moor gamekeepers are slaughtering rare Hen Harriers as well as Buzzards and Ravens. RSPB says the evidence is “game changing” Channel 4 News tonight.




Fantastic conversations had at the GSPC booth today with MauricioDiazgranados & Elena of New York Botanical Garden all about #ImportantPlantAreas and #PlantConservation here at #COP16Cololombia 🇨🇴🌵 Read more about IPAs➡️ tinyurl.com/bdpesnec #NYBGScience UN Biodiversity





Join our new GCBC project on biodiversity and tropical peatlands. We're hiring: 1. Full-time Post-Doctoral Research Associate careers.kew.org/vacancy/postdo… 2. Part-Time Project Manager careers.kew.org/vacancy/projec… @KewScience IIAP Suspense Averti iFO Corneille Ewango Tim Baker St Andrews Geography & SD



⚠️📢 African botanists and conservationists 📢 ⚠️ the 23rd #AETFAT African Plants Congress takes place on 3-8 Aug 2025 in Accra, Ghana. Abstract submission extended until 1st May. An unmissable event if you’re interested in the African flora! aetfat.ug.edu.gh AETFAT 2025
