The Rainforest Trust and the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) have purchased a three-hectare property near the Magombera Forest Reserve in central Tanzania where local NGO, Reforest Africa, will partner with TFCG to turn the site into a new botanical garden.

The new botanical garden aims to use native plant species for education, research and conservation. In particular, TFCG and Reforest Africa hope the property can be a seed bank for plant species at risk of extinction in the wild. They plan to have the garden up and running late next year and potentially expand it though future land purchases.

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