Cooperation between Peter the Great Botanic Garden and the Lower Khoper Nature park in the field of Ex-situ conservation

Abstract

Peter the Great Botanic Garden of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS took part in establishing of the Lower Khoper Nature Park – the largest Park at Volgograd region (active since 2003). The Garden helps to the Park with scientific consulting in identification of species and in clarifying places of its natural distribution, in development of ecological tourism and other branches of the Park’s activity. At the same time the cooperation with Park is useful for Botanic Garden to enlarge the collection with new valuable and well documented samples of natural provenances.

Keywords

• Ботанический сад
• сохранение биоразнообразия
• особо охраняемые природные территории