NWU NUEBG receives 2020-2021 GGI-Garden Award Program
Northwestern University Ecotourism Park and Botanic Gardens received the 2020-2021 Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens) Award Program on February 7, 2021.
The program was initiated by the Global Genome Initiative Gardens (GGI-Gardens), Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the U.S Botanic Garden (USBG) wherein NUEBG is the only recipient from the Philippines.
Organizers evaluated applications from nineteen countries through a set of criteria such as institutional capacity, collection scope and genomic novelty, best practices, policies and biodiversity standards, efficiency, and broader conservation impacts where the NUEBG became one of the fourteen recipients of the GGCI-Gardens Award Program.
Other recipients of the program grant are Atlanta Botanical Garden, United States; Core Facility Botanical Garden, University of Vienna, Austria (Universität Wien); Desert Botanical Garden, United States; Inala Jurassic Garden, Australia; Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, India; Kunming Botanical Garden, China; Montgomery Botanical Center, United States; Royal Botanic Garden, Jordan; San Diego Botanic Garden, United States; The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, United States; Tooro Botanical Gardens, Uganda; and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
The program recipients’ role is to accumulate dried and frozen samples from genome-quality plant tissue samples from their living plant collections. This will be preserved in a network of publicly accessible biorepositories.
This program is an initiative to protect and preserve the genomic biodiversity of the earth by maintaining samples of living collections in the different botanic gardens around the globe.
