missouri botanical garden inMADAGASCAR

摘要

Although far from the Garden's home in St. Louis, Madagascar is a place where the Garden's quest to document, safeguard, and raise awareness of the importance of plant diversity is making a globally significant contribution. Identified as an area of exceptional interest for its botanical diversity and conservation importance, Madagascar has been a priority area for the Garden's international program for well over four decades. The first visits to Madagascar by Garden scientists took place between 1972 and 1976, and since the mid-1980s, there has been a continuous in-country program that has evolved into a cornerstone of the Garden's plant science and conservation work.