Plants are the foundation of life on earth, yet 40% of species are estimated to be threatened with extinction. Human and environmental health are intrinsically linked, and increasingly urgent action is needed to protect and restore our natural world in the face of accelerating environmental crisis.

Every donation we receive is crucial in enabling us to enhance our global collaboration on research, conservation and education to increase environmental sustainability and fight back against extinctions and ecological loss.

Please consider donating to the Green Planet Appeal to support the work of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and our partners around the world. Help us protect our natural world for generations to come.

£25 could enable us to extract DNA from eight samples of a rare Scottish plant species, supporting genetic analysis to help establish thriving new populations 

£80 could purchase a set of telescopic tree pruners, an essential tool for obtaining samples from rainforest trees 

£150 could facilitate two and a half days of monitoring for Scottish arctic-alpine species in the Cairngorms  

£200 could fund a two-day wilderness first aid training course to keep a field team safe