The mounting paper contains all the information about the collected #plant specimen. At the National Herbarium of Rwanda we look forward to the upgrading and digitizing of this resource so that it serves science, research, and conservation. ☘️

If you are ever able to visit the herbarium @Kew… in the context of its proposed decentralisation and reprioritisation to 'the swamp' ... you will hear many things. Please remember the 18K voices of authority and reason from the #petition, you won't hear. #SaveKewHerbarium

Check out this herbarium specimen gallery of plant genera named after notable women in this Hand Lens piece "Women in Genera": brnw.ch/wig 📜🌿 #NYBGscience

We the undersigned, support Kew Science staff, asking Richard Deverell the Director and Trustees to reconsider their intention to move Herbarium from Kew Gardens to a new building to be constructed in a business park near Reading using UK taxpayers’ funds. change.org/p/keep-the-kew…

.⁦Duke University⁩ niversity plans to shut down its world-renowned herbarium, citing the high cost of maintaining the roughly 850,000-specimen collection of plants, fungi, and algae, a collection of historic plant life washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Here's an interesting read. Strange though, no ‘other botanists’ supporting the move are mentioned. Why would that be? FCBS to design controversial Kew Gardens archival facility architectsjournal.co.uk/news/fcbs-to-d…

💚 What an incredible night. Thank you, Brighton Pavilion! And a huge thank you to all the volunteers who have worked so hard to earn every single vote we got. I can’t wait to get to Parliament so I can take your all of your voices with me and hold this new Government to account.

Did you know the proposed site for the New Herbarium is on the same flood plain as the new Aldi supermarket? Let's stop this waste of public money and protect our community, sign the petition!✍️ #Aldi #Herbarium #floodrisk bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

‘Three-fourths of the new species are already threatened with extinction. If we don’t have taxonomists to describe these species, we stand little chance of saving them — or their habitat.’ To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy nytimes.com/2024/07/07/opi… #taxonomy #herbarium

Steve Reed MP Defra UK Please seriously consider saving taxpayers a massive predicted cost of £200 million moving the Kew Herbarium to an unnecessary new building! No one in the botanical and taxonomic field agrees with this! Much loved and used,its history and future dictate it remains where it is.

Not good. Museum collections & research are essential to understanding both the history and future of life on Earth. "California Academy of Sciences reeling from budget cuts: a major natural history collection loses one-quarter of its curators" science.org/content/articl…

Maura Flannery’s latest Herbarium World blog ‘Multiple Herbaria’ mentions the percieved significance of ‘the iconic red iron spiral staircase’ when she thinks of Kew Herbarium. herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/mul…

Loving the last point from Ana Gabriela Martinez Becerril from IBUNAM in her fascinating talk on risk assessment of Elaphoglossum

Herbaria touch all of us who do botanical science, even though it might not seem so at first glance Soltis Lab @UF IBC2024

X Don't miss this very rare opportunity to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Herbarium - purpose built to house the 7 million preserved plant specimens gathered from around the world over a span of 260 years (openhouse.org.uk) 14-15 Sept 2024 #curation #herbarium

Management maintain decentralising and deprioritizing Kews collection is to it's advantage. A worrying & very sad example of what happens when natural history collections are out of mind. West Japan university mistakenly discards 10,000 plant specimens mainichi.jp/english/articl…

New Banksy artwork appeared near Kew Herbarium featuring an Ibex goat teetering on a narrow ledge and with rocks crumbling to the ground…is this a statement against the reckless move of #KewHerbarium ?

Kew Herbarium open to public 14-15 September! 🌱