January 2022 by Colin Khoury, Senior Director for Science and Conservation We begin this new year with a flurry of new science and conservation activity, both at the Garden and further afield. Our ongoing work to help conserve rare oaks, cycads, manzanitas, coyote bush, and other threatened plants has increased dramatically over the past few […]
January 2021 by Sarah Hood and Dillon Jones, San Diego State University Graduate Students If you visited San Diego Botanic Garden this winter, you may have noticed some hummingbird feeders showing up among the plants. These feeders were a key part of a research project on Allen’s Hummingbirds that live in the Garden. Sarah Hood, […]
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July 2020 by Ari Novy, PhD, President & CEO Earlier this year, San Diego Botanic Garden and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies combined forces to offer the first of its kind symposium, “Plant Carbon Drawdown.” This 2-day symposium presented the cutting edge of plant-based innovations designed to help mitigate the coming effects of climate […]