期刊名称：Ethiopian e-Journal for Research and Innovation Foresight
电子版ISSN：2042-6356
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：1
出版社：NES-Global
摘要：The National Herbarium of Ethiopia within the Addis Ababa University held a workshop in November, 2010, to celebrate the end of the Ethiopian Flora Project and the beginning of a new Botanic Garden. Many participants of the workshop expressed that the Ethiopian Flora Project is not only a model for trans-national and inter-continental collaboration between professionals and institutions but also a model for rapid generation of needed botanical information about a country. Forty-three institutions and 92 scientists from 18 countries participated in the Project. The Ethiopian Flora Project was probably the largest departmental project of the Addis Ababa University, carried out jointly by its Department of Biology (now Faculty of Life Sciences) and the Department of Systematic Botany [now Biology] of Uppsala University in Sweden between 1980 and 2010. A brief history of the project is provided and its achievements highlighted. The entire vascular flora of the country has now been documented in eight volumes. Twelve people have been trained, directly and/or indirectly, to the level of Ph. D. and these, in turn, have trained over 200 Ethiopians and others from neighboring African countries to the level of M.Sc. The small specialized library within the National Herbarium, AAU, geared towards systematic botany, is strengthened. A large number of scholarly and scientific articles as well as a number of books have been published using the information contained in the Flora volumes and the collections in the National Herbarium. The National Herbarium (known by its acronym ETH) is now offering services to institutions within the country at a much improved pace and accuracy than hitherto due to the increased number and diversity of the collections. The Department of Biology has also entered into an agreement with the Addis Ababa City Administration to develop a portion of the Entoto mountains into a botanic garden. The expressed purpose of the Gullele Botanic Garden is to serve the country as a model (education, study, research, environmental awareness, conservation, etc.) on how to use and preserve one of its environmental resources.
关键词：Flora; flora; The Ethiopian Flora Project; Workshop; National Herbarium; Gullele Botanic Garden; W. G. Schimper; Addis Ababa University; Uppsala University.
