This month @BNaqqi @TCIG_Press @KewUKOTs @KewScience held the final Tropical Important Plant Areas review workshop, after three years of research funded by @UKBCFs Great engagement with islanders and local organisations, thanks to TCI DECR #TIPAsTCI #KewTCI

Ooooh a lovely new logo for the @WestonFdn #GlobalTreeSeedBank, how exciting! Thanks to our wonderful designer Andi, more of his work can be found here: https://t.co/DKyWmE9uLR

Living the @WestonFdn #GlobalTreeSeedBank dream in Thailand with an absolutely inspiring day spent with teams from @FORRU_CMU in Thailand, @brin_indonesia and @TeamKMCC discussing seed conservation, and all things restoration. How much we can learn when we talk to each other!

#GlobalTreeSeedBank Africa partners visiting the MSB this week, a pleasure to see Mamy from #SNGF in Madagascar and to meet @jamponsah12 from #FORIG in Ghana with our very own Duncan and Tim. Hopefully the start of some useful cross project and cross country working 🙌

Valuable few days in the herbarium trying to progress the identification of trees from Antavolobe. Hoping DNA will help with the mission. Thanks to @WestonFdn for providing support for rare and endemic trees of Madagascar

Really pleased to have the opportunity to work with @vononarbgkew1 at the MSB this week, the @WestonFdn Global Tree Seed Bank will benefit hugely from such an inspirational team leader in Madagascar. Hope the next two weeks at Kew go well Vonona!

Massive thank you to our skilled Hort team in the tropical nursery @kewgardens for their time and knowledge sharing with our partners @RakotoniainaEr7 Madagascar @KewScience @FlashBlaise Turks and Caicos #KewTCI not possible without funding from Bentham Moxon Trust. Thank you!

@RakotoniainaEr7 monitoring germination of seed sowing trials during training @KewScience in the tropical nursery.

Thank you @BalaatKew for sharing your knowledge and skills with our partners @RakotoniainaEr7 and @FlashBlaise on orchid cultivation @kewgardens tropical nursery. Deflasking seedlings coming from in-vitro lab takes patience and lots of care to cultivate these plants successfully

@RakotoniainaEr7 and @FlashBlaise round off the week with seed treatments, pricking out the tiniest plants and controlled watering. Thank you Bentham Moxon Trust for funding and @kewgardens tropical nursery’s skilled staff we work with.

Another day for @RakotoniainaEr7 @FlashBlaise tropical nursery visit @kewgardens learning air layering techniques which can be used when other propagation methods prove difficult. Thanks to @PhalaenopsisRT we have this skill in the tool box now.

Excited to have @RakotoniainaEr7 and @FlashBlaise working on germination and cultivation techniques @kewgardens tropical nursery for the next two weeks funded by Bentham Moxon trust

A pleasure to have a visit from @RakotoniainaEr7 at the MSB today! Eric is at Kew for the month working on the process for digitisation of herbarium specimens of Madagascar's trees, and working in the nurseries on germination and propagation techniques. Welcome!

Proud to have an article about the mysterious Cryptocarya trees published in Samara with @vononarbgkew1 @TeamKMCC...have a read! https://t.co/7u50PAFQFa

@Davidwillashley And of course huge thanks to our funders @WestonFdn for enabling us to build such an important and hopeful @kewscience programme of conservation for the trees of Madagascar! Our programme yesterday included a tour of our new facility at SNGF in our new project vehicle

Thanks to representatives from our collaborating organisations SAGE, MNP, PBZT and the University of Antananarivo for contributing to productive and exciting discussions about the next three years

Our restoration research project moves to the next phase. We have now planted ~15,000 trees from our local community nurseries. @TeamKMCC @KewScience @guardianscience @KewGIS @jenjwilliams #Madagascar #drone #MadForRest #regeneration #restoration https://t.co/xKTYsV4ij9

POTD – Cultivated yam tubers, #Dioscorea_alata bought from the communities cooperative in #Antsiranana to support our #Community_Drylands_Forest_Restoration_and_Monitoring project in #AnkarafantsikaPA, thanks to @guardianscience and @WestonFdn for their supports

Flower of Strophanthus boivinii (IUCN LC) #Gentianales, #Apocynaceae, #Madagascar, endemic shrub widespread in dry and subhumid forest, observed in #Kasijy_PA #Betsiboka_region @TeamKMCC

Fruit of Terminalia tropophylla (IUCN LC) #Myrtales, #Combretaceae, #endemic tree to #Madagascar observed in #Kasijy_PA #Betsiboka_region @TeamKMCC