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Lessons from Lotusland: Healing Ukraine -Botanic Gardens in a Time of War, a Model of International CollaborationWednesday, January 295:30 - 6:30PM PST
Presented by Tony Allison & Andriy Prokopiv
Since the Russian invasion in early 2022, Ukraine’s botanical gardens have been serving as centers of respite, recovery, environmental education, and nature healing. This timely webinar is about Ukrainian botanical gardens and their critical role during the ongoing war with Russia. The presentation will be led by Tony Allison, Board President of Partnerships for Nature, a US non-profit organization that works closely with Ukrainian botanical gardens, and will feature Andriy Prokopiv, Director of Lviv University Botanical Garden in Ukraine. As a model for international collaboration, leaders from three Ukrainian gardens will describe their current focus on Therapeutic Horticulture, utilizing US expertise to assist the traumatized population of their country, including veterans and refugee families.
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Tony Allison was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and throughout his career has been engaged with the region's unique natural environment. He worked for many years for Washington Park Arboretum and Mountains to Sound Greenway in Seattle, where he developed curriculum and led classroom and field lessons. In 2010 Tony founded a program of international environmental education exchanges between partner organizations in the United States and the former Soviet Union. He is the Board President and a co-founder of Partnerships for Nature, a non-profit organization based in Washington State.
Andriy Prokopiv is a native of Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine. He holds a PhD in Botany and is a professor of biology at Ivan Franko National University Botanical Garden, one of the largest and oldest botanical gardens in the country. In 2019 he was awarded the title of Honored Environmentalist of Ukraine - a state award. Since 2018, Andriy has led the collaboration of Ukraine botanical gardens with their overseas counterparts, including many U.S. gardens.
