{"id":298,"date":"2024-02-16T17:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/?p=298"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:52:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:52:33","slug":"paul_smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/paul_smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Paul Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" style=\"line-height:0.4\">Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" style=\"line-height:0\">paul.smith[at]bgci.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Paul is the Secretary General of the BGCI, which coordinates and monitors the progress of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, the first target-oriented work programme of the Convention on Biological Diversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a career spanning 30 years working in conservation and botanic gardens, Paul has trained as a plant ecologist and is a specialist in the plants and vegetation of southern Africa. He chairs Forestry England&#8217;s Arboreta Advisory Committee and is a Trustee of the National Botanic Garden of Wales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul is the recipient of the New England Wildflower Society\u2019s Medal for Services to International Plant Conservation and the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/Paul-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" width=\"309\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/Paul-Smith.jpg 451w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/Paul-Smith-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/task-force-members\/\">Back to Task Force Members<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Smith Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) paul.smith[at]bgci.org Paul is the Secretary General of the BGCI, which coordinates and monitors the progress of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, the first target-oriented work programme of the Convention on Biological Diversity. With a career spanning 30 years working in conservation and botanic gardens, Paul &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/paul_smith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Task Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbf-task-force-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}