The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recently hosted the 2026 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium. The event brought together experts to focus on the \u201cdigitisation of herbarium and fungarium collections, including its applications and implications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Local Contexts Strategic Advisor Maui Hudson (Whakat\u014dhea) presented<\/a> \u201cAcknowledging local contexts: Recognising Indigenous knowledge and provenance as part of the biocultural value of collections\u201d in Session 4, \u201cTapping into the biocultural wealth of collections.\u201d The session ended with a panel with the presenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch the presentation recordings and read the symposium report on Kew\u2019s website<\/a>, and see this article on Botany One<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recently hosted the 2026 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium. The event brought together experts to focus on the \u201cdigitisation of herbarium and fungarium collections, including its applications and implications.\u201d Local Contexts Strategic Advisor Maui Hudson (Whakat\u014dhea) presented \u201cAcknowledging local contexts: Recognising Indigenous knowledge and provenance as part …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","category-talks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localcontexts.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}