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Botanical Garden of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Did you know that the SP Botanical Garden is within a Conservation Unit? Around here, you can learn more about the plant species, observe the animals and their interaction with the environment and even take a bath in nature while walking in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest.

The Botanical Gardens play a fundamental role in society, acting in the conservation of species, in carrying out scientific research, in sustainable development and in carrying out educational practices that allow the construction of new knowledge, emotions and connections between people and nature.

Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden

The Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro – JBRJ – was founded on June 13, 1808. It arose from a decision by the then Portuguese Prince Regent D. João to install a gunpowder factory and a garden for the acclimatization of plant species originating in Rio de Janeiro. other parts of the world. Today, the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute – the name it received in 1995 – is a federal agency linked to the Ministry of the Environment and constitutes one of the most important research centers in the world in the areas of botany and biodiversity conservation.

Emilio Goeldi Botanic Garden

The institution has the mission of researching, cataloging and analyzing the biological and sociocultural diversity of the Amazon Basin, contributing to its cultural memory and its regional development. It has also the aim of increasing public awareness of science in the Amazon by means of its museums, botanical garden, zoological park, etc.

Inhotim Botanical Garden

Its privileged location – between the rich Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes – and the exuberant landscapes along the 140 hectares of visitation provide visitors with a unique experience that combines art and nature. Around 700 works by more than 60 artists, from almost 40 countries, are exhibited outdoors and in galleries in the middle of a Botanical Garden with more than 4,300 rare botanical species, coming from all continents.

Tsimbazaza Zoo and Botanical Gardens

The Botanical and Zoological Park of Tsimbazaza was created in 1925 under the name of “Botanical Garden of Tananarivo”.

Its missions are:

. to constitute and maintain living and dead collections in order to make them known and to protect them,
. to contribute to the conservation and safeguarding of the national heritage,
. to contribute to the education and information of the general public for the protection of national, natural and cultural heritage
. participate in the training of teachers, students and pupils through study and advanced training courses,

PBZT is not only an amusement park for all ages but also a National Research Center for the conservation and multiplication of threatened and endangered species.

Conservatoire botanique national de Mascarin

Knowledge of flora and habitats is the essential basis for conservation.

This mission relies on the skills of botanists, a veritable living encyclopedia capable of recognizing plants and vegetation, or phytosociologists who will study plant communities and their interactions with their environment. These passionate scientists contribute to creating the reference tools that are herbariums, atlases, taxonomic indexes, habitat repositories, essential tools for the action of the botanical conservatory on its territory.

To preserve a heritage in the long term, we must first learn to know and recognize it.

Botanical Garden of Tunis

With a total surface area of approximately 8 hectares in the northern urban center of Tunis, the arboretum has been classified as a Nature Reserve since 1996, in accordance with the Tunisian Forest Code. This green space is home to about 700 plant species and offers the inhabitants of the urban area of the Grand Tunis a nearby space in which to stroll and discover a great diversity of trees from all continents.

Aswan Botanical Garden

The island is of oval shape and covers an area of 17 feddans: 650 meters long and 115 meters large. In the garden there are many different qualities of tropical and subtropical plants and for this reason it is considered one of the most important centers for botanic researches. (…) It has become an important touristic site and a place for promenades for the people of Aswan.

The Secret Garden Médina Marrakech

Le Jardin Secret is opening its doors to the public for the first time in its history. The origins of the complex date back to the Saadian Dynasty, more than four hundred years ago. Rebuilt in the mid-Nineteenth century at the behest of an influential kaid of the Atlas Mountains, Le Jardin Secret has been the home of some of Morocco and Marrakech’s most important political figures. Today you are able to fully appreciate it, thanks to the recent renovation; Le Jardin Secret is part of the great tradition of stately Arab-Andalusian and Moroccan palaces. As a result visitors can discover its gardens and buildings, which are outstanding examples of Islamic art and architecture.

Jardin Majorelle

The Majorelle Garden is a one-hectare botanical garden and artist’s landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by the French architect, Paul Sinoir in the 1930s

Pretoria National Botanical Gardens

This 76 hectare urban oasis is a pristine getaway situated in the eastern suburbs of South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria. The Pretoria National Botanical Garden (NBG) was established in June 1946 when the University of Pretoria granted approval to the Department of Agriculture for the development of a botanical garden on a piece of land…

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as one of the great botanic gardens of the world. Few gardens can match the sheer grandeur of the setting of Kirstenbosch, against the eastern slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain.

Nassau Botanical Garden

Opened at the time of The Bahamas’ Independence on July 10, 1973, the Nassau Botanical Gardens provide a tranquil retreat for nature-loving residents and visitors. It features 18 acres of tropical flora covering over 600 species, including the Bahamas national flower, the Yellow Elder. Once known as the pit, these gardens were an old rock quarry supplying stones for roadways and the building of Fort Charlotte. The idea for the gardens was conceived in 1951 by Mr. Oris Russell of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Andromeda Botanic Gardens

8 acres of cultivated gardens with over 500 plant species – the oldest Barbadian garden and the largest garden in Barbados, both in terms of acreage and number of plant species. Amazing trees, beautiful individual but connected gardens, outstanding biodiversity including monarch butterflies – all in this organic, historic, botanical landscape. Visiting Andromeda is a truly authentic Barbados experience.

Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park

Enjoy a leisurely walk-through colorful garden; sit down near the lake and relax in the natural display which is the home of the endangered Grand Cayman Blue Iguana. The two-acre lake also serves as a habitat and breeding ground for native birds and other rare aquatic birds and animals native to the Caribbean. The Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park includes seven main attractions – the Visitor’s Centre, the Floral Garden, Orchid Boardwalk, Xerophytic Garden, Heritage Garden, Woodland Trail, and the Children’s Garden (under development).

Jardin de Balata

All paradises are gardens and it is no coincidence that during the visit to the Garden of Balata, the magic of the place gives visitors amazing feelings. It was in 1982 that Jean-Philippe Thoze, horticulturist, landscaper and artist at heart, retraced the steps of his childhood in the Creole house of his grandparents. From there, will be born a passion for botany which will take him to the four corners of the world. The garden, organized around the family home with typical Creole architecture, is the result of a perfect alchemy between a return to basics and an atypical artist.

Jardin botanique national Dr R.F. Moscoso

Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in the heart of Santo Domingo. The park was founded in 1976 and is named after Rafael Maria Moscoso, a Dominican botanist who cataloged the flora of the island of Hispaniola. There are so many attractions that surround this place with beauty that if you frequent it, it can become your fixed center of healthy fun and the ideal place to come as a family breathing fresh air through all the bushes that surround this beautiful park.

Monteverde Butterfly Gardens

Here at the Monteverde Butterfly Gardens, we have been teaching people about Costa Rica’s insects and arachnids for over 30 years. We have made it our mission to change the way people think about these small, misunderstood creatures. This may seem like a daunting task, but our bugs and tour guides can win over even the most skeptical visitor! With up to 30 species of butterfly in 4 different habitats, over 20 species of live insects and arachnids in our nature center, an active leaf-cutter ant colony and the best guides in the business, we truly have something for everyone!

Lankester Botanical Garden

Internationally recognized for its remarkable collections of epiphytes, the Lankester Botanical Garden was established in 1973 as a center for the exhibition, conservation, and research of tropical epiphytic plants, with an emphasis on orchids. On 11 hectares, the Garden’s field collections, greenhouse collections, and secondary forests house more than 3,000 plant species. The collections of plants in greenhouses come mainly from botanical expeditions, donations and exchange with botanical institutions around the world. Most of the plants with reliable provenance data are herborized and their associated information is included in an inventory and in a database. Other reference collections also originate from them, such as flowers in liquid, dehydrated tissues for analysis of genetic material, seeds, pollinaria and others that make them an essential resource for researchers from the Garden and from other institutions working on joint projects. .

Else Kientzler Garden

We have 7 hectares of land made up of different types of gardens, more than 2,000,000 tropical plants and spaces for recreation, meditation and celebrations. More than a Garden is a space to reconnect with nature, get out of the routine and spend unique moments.

El Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden

Located a few minutes from San Miguel de Allende, El Charco del Ingenio is an extraordinary Botanical Garden and Nature Reserve. It has an extensive collection of cacti and other succulent plants from Mexico, many of them rare, threatened or in danger of extinction.

Haraveri Botanical Garden

It is an in situ botanical garden; it develops at 11 hectares (27 acres). It´s one of the two botanical gardens in Mexico that protects the cloud forest.

It has 286 species of flora distributed in 86 families, 19 species are under protection according to NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2019, 30 species in the IUCN Red List and 22 species in CITES. In addition, 63% species has ethnobotanical uses.

Devon House

The Devon House mansion is a beautiful blend of Caribbean and Georgian architecture, furnished with an expertly curated collection of Jamaican, English and French antique pieces and reproductions. The Mansion overlooks a vast expanse of perfectly manicured and lush, green lawns. Stiebel’s legacy lives on with the beautifully maintained Devon House, which was declared a national monument in 1990 by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

Castleton Garden

Castleton Gardens is located approximately 20 minutes from Kingston and is anchored on a landscape dominated by ravines and tall mountain ranges. This lush, unbelievably beautiful garden is located on 15 acres and is bordered by the main road on one side and a river on the other. The flora includes the most exotic, often indigenous ferns and majestic palms. Annual rainfall here is 45 inches! The picnic areas are sheltered by some of the island’s most elegant trees. This is truly a nature-lovers paradise.

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