Southern African botanical gardens needs assessment

SABONET Report No. 11
D.J. Botha, C.K. Willis & J.H.S. Winter
2000
A4, soft cover, black and white photographs, 156 pp.
ISBN 1-919795-54-5
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This report represents the results of the first needs assessment of southern Africa’s botanical gardens. The gardens survey was conducted between July 1998 and December 1999 through personal visits to the region’s national botanical gardens by the authors, together with individual Curators (where available) of South Africa’s National Botanical Gardens. In addition to those gardens surveyed outside South Africa, South Africa’s eight National Botanical Gardens and the Durban Botanic Gardens were surveyed through correspondence during 1999-2000. The needs assessment was conducted with the aim of determining the needs of the various botanical gardens in the region and to gather first-hand information about each. The information was used to design a tailor-made Botanical Gardens Management Course for garden staff within the southern African region.

Twenty botanical gardens from eight of the ten countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) were included in this needs assessment. Although they participate in the SABONET Project, neither Angola nor Swaziland has botanical gardens.

The book contains an overall analysis of the needs of southern African gardens, as well as detailed information on each participating garden.