The World Botanic Garden Exhibition’s (WBGE) arrangement was completed on 9th June, 2008. The exhibition includes all the originally planned elements of design, and was completed ahead of schedule. The exhibition contains 70 individual exhibition panels with 70 stories highlighting world botanic gardens, institutions, and inviduals involved in plant conservation and research. Other exhibits include 2 seed display cabinets, 2 leaf display cabinets, and an interactive plant scent station (where visitors can smell different oils and perfumes derived from fragrant plants). The main exhibition also includes interesting living plants (most of them are medicinal plants) arranged throughout the area. The Plants Display and Exit area, is an open green space where visitors can wander after viewing the major exhibition area. It includes 30 rare and interesting species of live plants. There is a large (5.5m x 7.5m) LCD screen plays videos provided by various gardens. Visitors can easily watch the program from a distance, and will be drawn to the exhibit to learn more. An acknowledgement panel can be found at the exit, which lists the organizing institutions, and gives a general thanks to all participating parties. Included here are some photos from the exhibition area.

Under the theme of “Ecological Environment & Protection”, the Ecological Society of Yunnan organized a 5-day summer camp for teenagers and adolescents from Jingdong County during July 16-20.

On May 17,XTBG opened its door to the general public, especially the pupils and students of local schools. At the opening ceremony, XTBG held public education activities themed with “Green Olympics, Plant Homeland” at the Brilliant Tropical Flowers Garden in bloom.

Sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Wildlife (IFAW) and Wild China Film, the Ecological Photography Training Camp and China Wildlife Photography Training Camp in Xishuangbanna have got a complete success, with assistance of XTBG, Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve Administration, and Ecological Society of Yunnan, etc.

The Photo Exhibition named “Xishuangbanna _ a Wonderful Green Homeland” was opened, as one of the activities in celebration of the Water Splashing Festival 1370.

With an objective of spreading knowledge of tropical rainforest and increasing the awareness of protecting environment, XTBG has organized series of activities for students and pupils to “explore the mysteries of the rainforest”.

Headed up by its deputy director Liu Xingyao, a 7-person group of Shenzhen Fairylake Botanical Garden visited XTBG during March 24-26. The two sides talked about enhancing and promoting cooperation in science popularization.

On January 30, a summary meeting at XTBG Museum saw the end of the Winter Camp for juveniles, which was hosted by Beijing Teenager Science & Technology Club and XTBG. Concerned trainers and experts attended the closure.

The popular scientific activity entitled The popular scientific activity entitled “Exploration of tropical rainforest by teenagers” was formally opened on January 25 at XTBG, which is aimed to increase the juveniles’ understanding of tropical rainforest, to provide a platform for communication between scientists and middle school students, and to arouse the keenness on nature.

The contest was seeking photos that would inspire people to achieve environmental excellence. Entries all reflected the beautiful landscape of the two gardens. Through secret ballot, 22 photos were selected into the final list. Two participants were first prize winners.

Dr. Chiu Sein Tuck, head of Education Department of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG), together with his colleagues, paid a tour to XTBG during June 25-29. His tour is aimed to further cooperation and exchange experience of public science education between the two gardens.

On the International biodiversity Day (May 22) 2007, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and XTBG jointly held exhibitions on biodiversity conservation, by means of exchanging posters. The exhibition of XTBG was under the theme “Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and regional biodiversity conservation”, and the posters of Kew were entitled “The Millennium Seed Bank Project: Supporting global plant conservation activities”.