Lighting a Candle for Middleton

On Friday, the 19th of December, UBC Botanical Garden will be lighting a candle in support of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, which faces closure due to funding shortfalls.

The National Botanic Garden of Wales is a charitable Trust, which was established for the new Millennium and opened to the public in May 2000. The Government of Wales has recently decided to refuse a plea for roughly $7 million CDN to keep the garden open.

On December 19, local supporters of the National Botanic Garden of Wales will form a human ring around the Great Glasshouse and light a candle to symbolise the 2204 botanic gardens around the world. Botanical gardens around the world will light candles in reply.

Links:

Middleton, the National Botanic Garden of Wales weblog entry about the funding difficulties from October 7, 2003
End of the road for botanic garden from BBC News
The Garden of Wales website, with all of the latest news and more details about the candle-lighting event

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 2:36 PM on December 18, 2003

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