{"id":114566,"date":"2018-07-17T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=114566"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:27:11","slug":"seedbank-at-the-national-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/seedbank-at-the-national-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Seedbank at the National Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114544\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114544\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Seeds-Bank-at-Botanical-Garden-DR-Latin-American-Herald-Tribune-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Latin American Herald Tribune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The National Botanical Garden\u2019s (JBN) seedbank aims to protect the more than 6,000 plant species native to the country. The goal of the seedbank, which was created in 2007, is to preserve the region\u2019s germplasm for research purposes, as well as to promote reproduction, restoration of native species, habitat recovery in general and education using widely accepted protocols established by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<\/p>\n<p>JBN director Ricardo Garcia said that, while other similar projects are focused on cultivation, this seedbank fundamentally aims to protect the flora native to Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, placing special attention on plants facing extinction.<\/p>\n<p>The JBN has partnered with technicians with the UK Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, who have helped in the construction and management of the seedbank.<\/p>\n<p>The bank \u201cguarantees the conservation\u201d of the island\u2019s flora to counteract the effects of climate change, Garcia said, adding that the institution is an important resource to help Haiti, a country that has lost more than 70% of its forests.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laht.com\/article.asp?ArticleId=2461072&amp;CategoryId=14092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LAHT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-vida\/2017\/02\/09\/453479\/el-mas-completo-banco-de-semillas-del-caribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Botanical Garden\u2019s (JBN) seedbank aims to protect the more than 6,000 plant species native to the country. The goal of the seedbank, which was created in 2007, is to preserve the region\u2019s germplasm for research purposes, as well as to promote reproduction, restoration of native species, habitat recovery in general and education using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/seedbank-at-the-national-botanical-garden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}