
Michael Way
@michaelway88
Ecologist focused on use of seed-banking as part of plant conservation strategies. All views are my own.
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02-02-2015 15:47:30
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Fantastic part time job as Teaching Leader KewGardens for the MSc programme in Plant and Fungal Taxonomy, Diversity and Conservation run by @KewScience and Queen Mary University of London #PhDjobs £40,301 - £47,675 per annum (pro rata) careers.kew.org/vacancy/teachi…



Gracias al Jardín Botánico RD por su cooperación en estos proyectos de investigación y conservación de semillas en la Republica Dominicana. Hay mucho más por hacer con los árboles amenazadas y útiles. Kew Science_Sustainable Use, Seeds & Solutions UK in Dominican Republic🇬🇧🇩🇴

Thanks to the Jardín Botánico RD for great collaboration in projects conserving seeds of wild plants from Dominican Republic. There is still a lot that together we have to do for the threatened and useful trees of Hispaniola. UK in Dominican Republic🇬🇧🇩🇴 Kew Science_Sustainable Use, Seeds & Solutions





It is excellent to see this engagement from H. Cámara de Diputados in the progress of our project, aiming to strengthen carbon sequestration, the local shade-coffee economy and forest biodiversity, with support from #UKPACT and UK in Mexico🇬🇧🇲🇽

Peru’s zoning amendment endangers forests | our letter in Science Magazine with Carlos Martel we highlight that this law is likely to accelerate deforestation in Peru as it removes checks facilitating land-grabbing & exploitation from communal territories science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations ibis México for the decision to provide refillable bottles of filtered water in your guest rooms. Felicitaciones para está decisión más sustentable. #reuse


Realmente impresionante los logros de los guardianes de semillas de la FES Iztacala UNAM, ¡bien hecho! Estamos orgullosos de estar asociados a través del #MSBPartnership @kewscience Kew Science_Sustainable Use, Seeds & Solutions

Back to it for the Wilder Ouse project volunteers after a short summer break away. Four scrapes, 11 leaky dams, 2 wildflower seed banks, and tree guard removal later, our work here is done! Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔


In 2017, GlobalTreeAssessment delivered Red List training in Haiti at the Jardin Botanique des Cayes. Founder and Director William Cinea (William Cinea) shares the impact of this on the gardens.


Our @KewScience seed training course for #Magnolia forest rangers has started at the beautiful Ébano Verde reserve in Dominican Republic. Thanks also to Jardín Botánico Nacional, Fundación Moscoso Puello and funding from@ukindomrep and Garfield Weston Foundation for making this possible.


Juniperus gracilior is an endangered cloud forest tree which has potential in reforestation projects. Our @kewscience #Magnolia Forest course participants collected well-formed seed near Parque Nacional Valle Nuevo, for seed-banking and propagation. UK in Dominican Republic🇬🇧🇩🇴 Jardín Botánico RD



Fundacion Progressio reviewed #Magnolia propagation and conservation as part of our @kewscience course today. We all took the opportunity to plant #Magnolia seedlings in Ebano Verde reserve. Thanks to Botanic Gardens Conservation International and Fondation Franklinia for supporting these propagation projects.


Our course has finished with several seed collections and great memories. Thanks Graham Jessup UK in Dominican Republic🇬🇧🇩🇴 and Pedro Suarez Jardín Botánico RD for congratulating our 15 trainees who will be helping us evaluate seed of cloud forest trees for conservation and propagation.@KewScience


Which native trees are the most important for agroforestry? Our open access paper FES Iztacala UNAM @kewscience Pronatura Veracruz El Instituto de Ecología, INECOL uses a hybrid approach to reveal the key carbon & useful species to use in shade coffee forests of Veracruz Mexico. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
