Endangered Species Day

Tours of the U.S. Botanic Garden, featuring their live specimens of endangered species.

Classroom: Series of lectures by various agencies and nonprofit organizations on endangered species.

Garden Court:  Exhibits by agencies and nonprofits.

The U.S. Botanic Garden is one of many botanic gardens worldwide that actively participate in the conservation of endangered species by maintaining live specimens in their collections, studying wild plants at risk, banking seeds of rare plants, and introducing rare plants to the horticultural trade. As one of 62 repositories for plants that have been seized by customs agents through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Botanic Garden accepts and cares for orchids and succulents.

The even will focus on endangered plants and their relationship to pollinators and the environment.  Native Plants, Pollinators, Endangered Plants will be some of the focus of the event.