Botanic Garden Education Program

Botanic Garden Educational Program

NUEBG aims to:

Promote scientific research on the collection, identification, propagation, conservation, reintroduction & proper utilization (ethno-botany), of all known species of the kingdom plantae.
Create a broad collection of living plants as gene bank/stocks for horticultural trade, herbarium specimen exchange and botanical scientific cooperation around the world.
Supports global alliance with other Botanic Institutions participating in plant conservation.
Implements an ex situ and in situ conservation program especially for our Philippine flora that are now in the verge of extinction.
Highlights the role of Botanic Gardens in support of environmental awareness and sustainable development, through community extension as a big factor in mitigating climate change.
Establish microenvironments to display the world’s Flora according to their latest system of classification as live specimen for educational as well as recreational purposes.

Center for biodiversity studies in the Northwest Luzon, Philippines.

The NUEBG is conceived to be a functional laboratory of living plants to be used for scientific research and ultimately started in 2007 after two years of groundworks. This herculean project is to create the first functional botanic garden in the country with species collection representing the various plant families of the kingdom plantae. It is also aimed to be a repository of the region's floristic diversity for appreciation, education, and research. Today it houses 228 families and 225 subfamilies, representing 967 genera, and about 2600 species in the living plant collection, a conducive place for plant systematics class and field botany and other related topics in plant diversity.

Since its opening in 2010, top caliber universities in manila such as the University of the Philippines Manila and the University of Santo Tomas visits the the garden annually for their plant systematics class. As the garden is getting more attention for its diversified collection, the DLSU and UP Diliman came next, with small groups of researchers from other academic institutions who are into phytochemical and genomic studies. The NUEBG also cater fields botany to the different study sites of the province and assists researchers to their specimen collection.

International plant experts and researchers also flock into the garden for specimen collection. The inhouse herbarium is also frequently visited by researchers to refer their plant species for proper identification.

A botanical hub in the north for plant systematic and taxonomy

The NUEBG is a popular hub for botanical classes for it offers both scientific as well s the integration of cultural and ecological sites for students who wants to study the biodiversity of the Northwestern Luzon, Philippines. NUEBG develop its Botanic Garden Education Program to cater the growing number of visitors. It is designed to maximized the garden's facility. The NUEBG offers the following:

Plant Taxonomy: The gardens established its botanical collection conforming to the latest plant systematics (APG IV). It is the only garden in the country that has the most extensive living plant collection representing more than 220 families of the kingdom plantae. These collections are grouped per family treatment.

In 2010, NUEBG started to offer plat taxonomy. Students from the University of the Philippines Manila were the first to attend, followed by De la Salle University Dasmarinas Cavite, University of the Philippines Diliman, University of Santo Tomas, and other schools hat are being delighted by the vast botanical collections.

Field Botany : This program is sought after by researchers to familiarize themselves on how to identify plant species in the wild by investigating their morphological characteristics and diagnostic characters. It is the application of plant systematics and terminologies on how to describe certain species and classify them according to their respective clades/ taxonomic treatment.

Practical Horticulture: This is a short training course for adopted communities that avail of the services of the University Extension Center under the RCEIAD.

It is also caters guided plant exhibition i the wild. This is a series of fieldworks to the various ecological sites of the province. Participants are exposed to the different vegetation and are trained how to assess vegetation profile, ecology and its threat to the whole ecosystems. International students as well as researchers are also visiting the garden collection for collaborative botanical works phytochemistry, DNA barcoding and sequencing.

The NUEBG also conducts invitation seminars for biodiversity conservation. Establishment of ex situ collection or gene bank to back up natural population. Garden establishments for barangays as well as urban greening using the indigenous species f their respective localities.