Status Report for the British Virgin Islands - Royal Botanic Gardens ...

Recommendations:
(For all taxa listed in this status report.)
• bank seeds in Territory and at Millenium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place, Kew;
• introduce all taxa into cultivation in-Territory and possibly at Kew;
• recognise the importance of monitoring and locating new sites;
• implement monitoring programme of Red List Candidate species;
• assess level of protection for each taxon;
• begin to accumulate information towards production of a field guide to
threatened plants of BVI;
• encourage interpretation around National Parks, including displaying
conservation posters;
• continue training of BVINPT staff in collecting and plant identification;
• identify mini-hotspots of PRB endemics, based on ecological preferences;
• raise public awareness of value of unique local flora and its conservation;
• continue to promote interdisciplinary conservation collaboration.
Acronyms:
AOO
BVI
BVINPT
CBD
CITES
CR
EN
EOO
G
GIS
IUCN
L
NY
PR
PRB
USVI
VU
Area of Occupancy.
British Virgin Islands.
British Virgin Islands National Parks Trust.
Convention on Biological Diversity.
Certificate on International Trade in Endangered Species.
Critically Endangered.
Endangered.
Extent of Occurrence.
Geneva, Switzerland.
Geographic Information System; Geographical Information Science.
The World Conservation Union.
Leiden, The Netherlands.
New York.
Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rican bank.
US Virgin Islands.
Vulnerable.
Acknowledgements:
We thank Joseph Smith-Abbott, Raymond Walker, Nancy Woodfield and other staff
of the BVINPT for their continuing co-operation and assistance in BVI, and Rondell
Smith, Athley Stevens and Keith Grant for support with fieldwork. Carlos Rodriguez
Reynel is thanked for his communication regarding the taxonomy of Caribbean
Zanthoxylum.
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