One of the star performers for forest restoration in #Madagascar is the genus Canarium - especially because it's fruits are a favourite food for lemurs. This young tree was planted just 2 years ago. MoBot Research Dept.

Key to ‘regreening Madagascar’ is identifying the right places for reforestation.

Delighted to join the launch of a Kew Science project working to do just that - & the first in #Madagascar to be supported by the new 🇬🇧-funded Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate, The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate.

Bring your attention to Navashni Govender, Senior Conservation Manager KrugerNationalPark and glass-ceiling beaker for #African #conservation . Once told 'women cannot manage fire', she's a global leader in understanding how to use fire to enhance #nature #InternationalWomensDay

The 4-day launch event sequence for our new GCBC project (mapping grasslands to help tree planting across Madagascar) was organised by fenitra noro, me, and Nantenaina Herizo in this picture and finally completed yesterday. Everyone is tired but happy. Wowzers.

Speech by Max Fontaine Max Andonirina Fontaine 🇲🇬, Madagascar's Minister of the Environment, to launch our new project! Still overwhelmed two days later and so grateful to @Davidwillashleyand Tiana Randriamboavon Kew Madagascar! Video recording at youtu.be/NB3CeuBKZZQ?si… me in the red shirt

Comparing different maps of Ambohitantely Special Reserve collated by Leanne N. Phelps to understand vegetation history, fires, and sediment cores by Tsilavo Razafimanantsoa, PhD - obviously more fun in the dark

Correct methodology for describing soils and measuring soil carbon for each soil horizon demonstrated by project partners at Laboratoire des RadioIsotopes, Université d'Antananarivo laboradioisotopes.mg

Field trip to see tree planting in the Ambohitantely Special Reserve before launching our new project using open ecosystm knowledge to help tree planting in Madagascar, Kew Science Kew Madagascar with MoBot Research Dept. and Laboratoire des RadioIsotopes, Université d'Antananarivo

Exciting phylogenomic analysis of the tropical forage grass genus Urochloa reveals five distinct African forage grass clades #grass #forage #Urochloa #phylogenomics Lizo Masters Paulina Tomaszewska @trudesc Jan Hackel @[email protected] Alexandre Zuntini Trude Schwarzacher Bat Fanihy Vorontsova academic.oup.com/aob/advance-ar… 1/4

To celebrate #WomenInScienceDay we feature a piece by Paula Rudall, Honorary Research Associate (Emeritus) giving a historical account of the Jodrell lab
Kew Science, one of the world’s first non-university affiliated labs for plant sciences. Check it out: doi.org/10.1007/s12225…

🙋🏻‍♀️Celebrating #WomenAndGirlsInScience through our recent data paper on plant genera named after them. So proud to belong to this amazing group of women researchers! 🤝 🗺️

😉 #11Feb24 read 👉
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🙆🏻‍♀️🧚‍♀️🌿📝 Sabine von Mering Sandra Knapp Siobhan Curatrix, Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE) +3

Feel very proud to be part of such an inspirational team 🌼🌼

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬

Meet Natalia, one of our 350+ scientists at Kew, and learn more about her role and what inspires her 👇

#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

To celebrate, meet some of our #womeninscience 👩‍🔬

Dr Isabel Larridon, the head of our Accelerated Taxonomy Department, does work focusing on the evolution, diversity and conservation of the Cyperaceae or sedge family 🧵👇

Amazing evening with our Kew Madagascar Kew Science colleagues who gave talks for the public, last night, on their field work and seed banking funded by Garfield Weston Foundation during Kew Gardens fantastic orchid festival…Big shout out to our amazing Hort team too 👏

The Mystery of the Yew
Tue 20 Feb 7pm - 8pm (online)
Why are 73% of all the UK’s large and ancient yews found in churchyards?
Join author Bob Gilbert as he shares historical and mystical findings from his visits to many ancient yews. Book here: slbi.org.uk/event/the-myst…
#slbi #yew

Real Time Public Exhibit Intervention! Malagasy scientists Kew Madagascar Rakotoarinivo fenitra noro demonstrating use of the Madagascar Field Camp we recreated for the Kew Gardens Orchid Festival in London, photos by Solene Dequiret

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: project coordinator for our new adventure classifying grassy ecosystems to plan tree planting in Madagascar! tinyurl.com/4damtrvc, job closing 12 February, please RT. With Kew Science Caroline Lehmann Adam Devenish Dr James Borrell Joseph D.M. White

In celebration of Kew Gardens #orchidfestival , I was invited to write a piece for Kew Science about my #conservation #research in #Madagascar . Click 👇 to hear about a day in the life of a field scientist
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