Survey in Support of Creating A Global Campaign to Tackle the Illegal Trade in Plants

[Tina Stanley]

Dear CPC network,

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BCGI) has launched a new initiative to combat the illegal trade of plants world-wide, drawing on the extensive international reach of botanical gardens worldwide and their networks, partners, and visitor outreach capacity. To succeed at this scale, BGCI has created a partnership with the Commission on Education and Communication of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN CEC). While BGCI, with its many global partners and technical allies, brings the expertise and on-the-ground experience with working with plants, IUCN’s CEC is providing the process support in designing an effective behavioural change campaign. IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is also a partner in this campaign, providing scientific expertise.

To inform and support this new initiative, BCGI invites all individuals and organizations that work to conserve plants to complete this Expert Facing survey.

Designing a global campaign for a complicated challenge such as reducing the illegal trade in plants requires a rigorous and thoughtful process. The interrelated nature of illegal trade that cuts across borders requires a collective, coordinated, and global effort. To succeed at this scale, we need to have strong data and many partners. This survey is an important element in our formative research phase, alongside a comprehensive literature review process, focused interviews, understanding previous outreach efforts and identifying appropriate collaborating partners.

If this is a topic you feel you or your organisation would like to get more involved with, please feel free to contact Dr. Carly Cowell, BGCI’s Director of Conservation at carly.cowell@bgci.org. We are seeking more strategic partners to build this important campaign from the ground level and would be happy to discuss your potential involvement.

We thank you for your great support in helping build this global movement to reduce the illegal trade in plants!

IUCN Commission on Education and Communication
on behalf of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BCGI)

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