Clare Callow
@clarecallow.bsky.social
Global Tree Conservation Projects Manager at the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Can seed collectors learn identification skills for over 50 tropical plant families in 10 days? That's the challenge for our botanists from Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social, Missouri @mobotgarden.bsky.social and Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM). Great start to MSBP Next Level Training!
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Can seed collectors learn identification skills for over 50 tropical plant families in 10 days? That's the challenge for our botanists from Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social, Missouri @mobotgarden.bsky.social and Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (IIAM). Great start to MSBP Next Level Training!
I am pleased to share two exciting opportunities to join our excellent Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team in Madagascar: Senior Botanist, and Restoration Technician. Please share widely!
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
September 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I am pleased to share two exciting opportunities to join our excellent Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team in Madagascar: Senior Botanist, and Restoration Technician. Please share widely!
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
Great opportunity to join our team at the Millennium Seed Bank: careers.kew.org/vacancy/glob...
Global Tree Seed Bank Data Officer - Careers | Kew Gardens
Based in the Millennium Seed Bank Partnerships team (MSBP), this role entails managing the MSBP Data Warehouse – a BRAHMS database holding seed collections data from around the world. The post holder ...
careers.kew.org
August 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Great opportunity to join our team at the Millennium Seed Bank: careers.kew.org/vacancy/glob...
Jan, our #GlobalTreeSeedBank germination specialist has used his magical method to germinate the seeds of three highly threatened Malagasy tree species at @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank. These are now growing on in the nursery and will soon be towering over us on display at Kew.
August 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jan, our #GlobalTreeSeedBank germination specialist has used his magical method to germinate the seeds of three highly threatened Malagasy tree species at @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank. These are now growing on in the nursery and will soon be towering over us on display at Kew.
Team #GlobalTreeSeedBank representing at #AETFAT 2025 in Ghana! Well done team, a successful symposium on seed conservation across Africa hosted, and wishing you an interesting few final days!
August 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Team #GlobalTreeSeedBank representing at #AETFAT 2025 in Ghana! Well done team, a successful symposium on seed conservation across Africa hosted, and wishing you an interesting few final days!
Look at this gorgeous film about our Millennium Seed Bank partners in the Caucasus...transports you straight out of the windy UK!
Meadows support an incredible array of life 🌱🌷🌾
Join us in Armenia, where we journeyed with our Millennium Seed Bank partners to understand some of the most extraordinary meadows on Earth and the people whose lives are entwined with them 🌍
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFy8...
Join us in Armenia, where we journeyed with our Millennium Seed Bank partners to understand some of the most extraordinary meadows on Earth and the people whose lives are entwined with them 🌍
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFy8...
Armenia: Celestial meadows
YouTube video by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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June 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Look at this gorgeous film about our Millennium Seed Bank partners in the Caucasus...transports you straight out of the windy UK!
Interesting PhD opportunity!
Join us in Stockholm! PhD student position on Madagascar’s biome history & plant phylogenetics @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social. You will join my new evolutionary plant biogeography group. 4-year job with salary & benefits. Contact me for questions – infos & application here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Plant systematics
The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) is located in the Arrhenius Laboratories, situated at the University Campus at Frescati. Research spans a broad range of biological sub
su.varbi.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Interesting PhD opportunity!
Excellent day learning about the Wakehurst Ecosystem Observatory with Kew Madagascar colleagues Valisoa and Johnny today. There is so much knowledge to exchange between Ankarafantsika and Wakehurst! Thanks to @kungphil.bsky.social, looking forward to what comes next...
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Excellent day learning about the Wakehurst Ecosystem Observatory with Kew Madagascar colleagues Valisoa and Johnny today. There is so much knowledge to exchange between Ankarafantsika and Wakehurst! Thanks to @kungphil.bsky.social, looking forward to what comes next...
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
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One huge problem with the big focus on tree planting is that a forest is not just trees - its a community of interacting plants and animals
Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...
www.nature.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
One huge problem with the big focus on tree planting is that a forest is not just trees - its a community of interacting plants and animals
Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Clare Callow
Kew Madagascar, in partnership with Madagascar National Parks and the Ministry of National Education, has launched hands-on ‘Green Saturday School’ sessions where pupils learn about biodiversity, ecosystems and sustainability.
Take a look at the impact this has had 👇
ow.ly/JKKr50VV4kc #biodiversity
Take a look at the impact this has had 👇
ow.ly/JKKr50VV4kc #biodiversity
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Kew Madagascar, in partnership with Madagascar National Parks and the Ministry of National Education, has launched hands-on ‘Green Saturday School’ sessions where pupils learn about biodiversity, ecosystems and sustainability.
Take a look at the impact this has had 👇
ow.ly/JKKr50VV4kc #biodiversity
Take a look at the impact this has had 👇
ow.ly/JKKr50VV4kc #biodiversity
Have a look at our new blog about our work in Madagascar!
These children are learning to protect one of the world’s rarest forests 🌳❤️
In Madagascar’s Ankarafantsika National Park, local forests are vital - but also vanishing. Now, a new environmental education programme is helping children become the forest’s strongest defenders.
👉 ow.ly/JKKr50VV4kc
In Madagascar’s Ankarafantsika National Park, local forests are vital - but also vanishing. Now, a new environmental education programme is helping children become the forest’s strongest defenders.
👉 ow.ly/JKKr50VV4kc
From forest to family: how education is helping save Madagascar's dry forests
Conservation starts at home - especially when your home borders a disappearing forest.
ow.ly
May 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Have a look at our new blog about our work in Madagascar!
Reposted by Clare Callow
🌄 Ten years. 749 species. One extraordinary mountain range.
Our new checklist for Madagascar’s Itremo Massif reveals over 500 endemic plants - including 70 found nowhere else on Earth 🌍
#Conservation #Madagascar
Our new checklist for Madagascar’s Itremo Massif reveals over 500 endemic plants - including 70 found nowhere else on Earth 🌍
#Conservation #Madagascar
May 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🌄 Ten years. 749 species. One extraordinary mountain range.
Our new checklist for Madagascar’s Itremo Massif reveals over 500 endemic plants - including 70 found nowhere else on Earth 🌍
#Conservation #Madagascar
Our new checklist for Madagascar’s Itremo Massif reveals over 500 endemic plants - including 70 found nowhere else on Earth 🌍
#Conservation #Madagascar
Having worked with Prof Fahal at BSMS @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social for years I've seen the dedication of the Mycetoma Research Centre to ending the suffering of those living with the debilitating disease...to see all that work and effort in ruins is incredibly sad.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Gleaming labs turned to rubble: scientists mourn the loss of decades of medical progress in Sudan
Universities and laboratories in Khartoum are looted or in ruins, with vital research and medicines destroyed, including pioneering work on tropical diseases
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Having worked with Prof Fahal at BSMS @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social for years I've seen the dedication of the Mycetoma Research Centre to ending the suffering of those living with the debilitating disease...to see all that work and effort in ruins is incredibly sad.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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🌱 #Postdoc opportunity in the #Conservation and Sustainable #Horticulture Lab (myweb.fiu.edu/akhoddam/res...) within the International Center for Tropical Botany at the Kampong (environment.fiu.edu/ictb/) @fiu.bsky.social
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
Research – Conservation & Sustainable Horticulture Lab
myweb.fiu.edu
May 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
🌱 #Postdoc opportunity in the #Conservation and Sustainable #Horticulture Lab (myweb.fiu.edu/akhoddam/res...) within the International Center for Tropical Botany at the Kampong (environment.fiu.edu/ictb/) @fiu.bsky.social
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
✏️ Apply to #Job Opening ID 534749 at careers.fiu.edu by June 10, 2025.
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🚨 Calling all undergrads!
Looking for a paid placement year in science, conservation, or curation? 🌿
Kew’s 12-month Sandwich Internships are now live - 6 incredible roles working with Kew experts and real collections 🗓️ Deadline: 11 May
🔗 careers.kew.org/stud-appr-in...
Looking for a paid placement year in science, conservation, or curation? 🌿
Kew’s 12-month Sandwich Internships are now live - 6 incredible roles working with Kew experts and real collections 🗓️ Deadline: 11 May
🔗 careers.kew.org/stud-appr-in...
May 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚨 Calling all undergrads!
Looking for a paid placement year in science, conservation, or curation? 🌿
Kew’s 12-month Sandwich Internships are now live - 6 incredible roles working with Kew experts and real collections 🗓️ Deadline: 11 May
🔗 careers.kew.org/stud-appr-in...
Looking for a paid placement year in science, conservation, or curation? 🌿
Kew’s 12-month Sandwich Internships are now live - 6 incredible roles working with Kew experts and real collections 🗓️ Deadline: 11 May
🔗 careers.kew.org/stud-appr-in...
Reposted by Clare Callow
Check out our tree contributions to the new Google Arts & Culture World Wide Wood!
🌳 Guinea tree discovery
artsandculture.google.com/story/JQWBZi...
🌱 Terrific trees in the MSB
artsandculture.google.com/story/GQXBPM...
❄️ Tropical tree cryopreservation
artsandculture.google.com/story/RQWxay...
🌳 Guinea tree discovery
artsandculture.google.com/story/JQWBZi...
🌱 Terrific trees in the MSB
artsandculture.google.com/story/GQXBPM...
❄️ Tropical tree cryopreservation
artsandculture.google.com/story/RQWxay...
April 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Check out our tree contributions to the new Google Arts & Culture World Wide Wood!
🌳 Guinea tree discovery
artsandculture.google.com/story/JQWBZi...
🌱 Terrific trees in the MSB
artsandculture.google.com/story/GQXBPM...
❄️ Tropical tree cryopreservation
artsandculture.google.com/story/RQWxay...
🌳 Guinea tree discovery
artsandculture.google.com/story/JQWBZi...
🌱 Terrific trees in the MSB
artsandculture.google.com/story/GQXBPM...
❄️ Tropical tree cryopreservation
artsandculture.google.com/story/RQWxay...
'It's gone': conservation science in Thailand's burning forest -
#GlobalTreeSeedBank colleagues work covered by @france24.com
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
#GlobalTreeSeedBank colleagues work covered by @france24.com
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
'It's gone': conservation science in Thailand's burning forest
Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke.
www.france24.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
'It's gone': conservation science in Thailand's burning forest -
#GlobalTreeSeedBank colleagues work covered by @france24.com
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
#GlobalTreeSeedBank colleagues work covered by @france24.com
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Reposted by Clare Callow
What does it take to save a cloud forest? 🌧️🌳
High in the misty peaks of the Dominican Republic, we’ve been training local forest rangers in a vital new skill: collecting & conserving seeds from the region’s most threatened tree species 🌍
Read the story 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #plantscience
High in the misty peaks of the Dominican Republic, we’ve been training local forest rangers in a vital new skill: collecting & conserving seeds from the region’s most threatened tree species 🌍
Read the story 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #plantscience
Saving cloud forests: How rangers are protecting these threatened ecosystems
A conservation training course to enhance local skills to conserve cloud forests in the Dominican Republic
www.kew.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What does it take to save a cloud forest? 🌧️🌳
High in the misty peaks of the Dominican Republic, we’ve been training local forest rangers in a vital new skill: collecting & conserving seeds from the region’s most threatened tree species 🌍
Read the story 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #plantscience
High in the misty peaks of the Dominican Republic, we’ve been training local forest rangers in a vital new skill: collecting & conserving seeds from the region’s most threatened tree species 🌍
Read the story 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #plantscience
Reposted by Clare Callow
Last week, despite heavy rain, the LATAM Team of the MSBP visited a population of old trees of the Endangered Magnolia hamorii in East Bahoruco, with the aim of collaborating with local partners for its protection.
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
April 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Last week, despite heavy rain, the LATAM Team of the MSBP visited a population of old trees of the Endangered Magnolia hamorii in East Bahoruco, with the aim of collaborating with local partners for its protection.
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
Reposted by Clare Callow
Magnolia seedlings' donation to the Catheline family's farm saw the participation of the MSBP's LATAM Team, Jardín Botánico Nacional, Grupo Jaragua, Fundación Progressio y Moscoso-Puello. 🇩🇴🌱
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Magnolia seedlings' donation to the Catheline family's farm saw the participation of the MSBP's LATAM Team, Jardín Botánico Nacional, Grupo Jaragua, Fundación Progressio y Moscoso-Puello. 🇩🇴🌱
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
Spent a couple of hours scrambling and fighting through the undergrowth looking for this CR Dombeya milleri in Montagne des Français, only to find it right by the side of the path 😁 thanks to the unmatched skills of this legend Richard 'Papa' Razakamalala
April 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Spent a couple of hours scrambling and fighting through the undergrowth looking for this CR Dombeya milleri in Montagne des Français, only to find it right by the side of the path 😁 thanks to the unmatched skills of this legend Richard 'Papa' Razakamalala
Reposted by Clare Callow
🌱The Weston Global Tree Seed Bank: Unlocked project is conserving the cloud forests of the Dominican Republic, involving @rbgkew.bsky.social, the National Botanic Garden of Santo Domingo, the Progressio and the Moscoso-Puello Foundations.
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🌱The Weston Global Tree Seed Bank: Unlocked project is conserving the cloud forests of the Dominican Republic, involving @rbgkew.bsky.social, the National Botanic Garden of Santo Domingo, the Progressio and the Moscoso-Puello Foundations.
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@clarecallow.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
Reposted by Clare Callow
Seed collecting days in East Bahoruco's cloud forests for the Latin America team of the MSBP & local partners, with the support of @grupojaragua.bsky.social.
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
@dcacostarojas.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
@dcacostarojas.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
April 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Seed collecting days in East Bahoruco's cloud forests for the Latin America team of the MSBP & local partners, with the support of @grupojaragua.bsky.social.
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
@dcacostarojas.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership
@rbgkew.bsky.social
@clarecallow.bsky.social
@yolandaleon.bsky.social
@dcacostarojas.bsky.social
#GlobalTreeSeedBank #MSBPartnership