Conservation Risk Assessment for Managing Plant Collection of a Botanic Gardens in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210727.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

risk assessment, Botanic Gardens, plant collection, control action, mitigation

Abstract

Botanic Garden (BG) is one of ex situ Plant Conservation Institution that manages documented collections for conservation, research, education, tourism and ecosystem services purposes. There are many processes for plants to become garden’s collection, from collecting the plants from their original habitat until displaying at the garden. The aim of this study is to identify risks of plant collections management of the botanic gardens, with accordance to the processes or procedures of plant collections in the garden in Bogor/Indonesian experience, as well as the effort to reduce the risks for prevention and mitigation. The identified risks of plant collections management of a botanic gardens are specific and could be different from one to other BGs. From 16 identified risks related with plant collection procedure at Bogor BG, 13 of those are on the level of Likelihood 3 or 50 % probability or above and the impact level of the risks higher than 3 or significant. The control and action plan to prevent the risks are very urgent to be conducted immediately. The prevention of the risks even become most priority for the highest level of probability and impact, which in relation to human safety and loss of plant collection/database. In general, existing control of the identified risks has been prepared or available including the staff, procedure, equipment, tools and supervision. Many risks should be preventive by more communication, coordination, work appropriately and as procedure. Therefore, strict control and supervision are still needed to be conducted with more detail and routine.

Copyright

© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Reni Lestari
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/28
TI  - Conservation Risk Assessment for Managing Plant Collection of a Botanic Gardens in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the Business Innovation and Engineering Conference 2020 (BIEC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 218
EP  - 224
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210727.039
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210727.039
ID  - Lestari2021
ER  -