A conference to reflect on more than 23 years of service to Haiti's biodiversity, understand the current crisis, and envision the next chapter of the garden's mission — together.
The Cayes Botanical Garden is an institution created for environmental education — to help Haitians (children, students, researchers, visitors) understand the country's nature in all its dimensions: ecological, scientific, cultural and human.
For more than 23 years, the garden has mobilized communities, trained generations of students and professionals, inspired young people across the South region, and built one of the most important collections of Haiti's endemic and native plants.
Today, however, the garden is going through a period of great difficulty. This is a pivotal page in its life — a moment when the community must come together, understand what is at stake, and decide the way forward.
As a result, the Cayes Botanical Garden team is organizing this conference to discuss the garden's past, highlight its great vision, missions and actions, and map out with its partners the next steps so that the CBG can continue its mission: to contribute to human health and to the health of nature.
This is an open exchange for everyone — students, researchers, professionals, institutional partners, Haitian families, diaspora, friends of Haiti. Every voice counts.
23 years of science, education and conservation serving Haiti: from "Haïti Verte" in 2002 to the recognized institution of today.
Understand what is happening on the garden's grounds, the losses already suffered, and the ongoing legal and heritage challenges.
The great visions, missions and actions to save, relocate and keep the garden alive — at the service of human and ecological health.
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