Sara Oldfield

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With a career in international plant conservation spanning over 30 years, Sara Oldfield has been Secretary General of Botanic Gardens Conservation International since May 2005. Previously she worked as Global Programmes Director for Fauna & Flora International. She has worked for a wide range of other conservation organisations, including UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and also as a freelance consultant for over ten years, working as a researcher and policy advisor for international biodiversity conservation.

Sara is also Chair of the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group, responsible for promoting and implementing projects to identify and protect globally Red Listed tree species. She is an accomplished author, and has published a number of research papers and books, most recently writing for and about botanic gardens under the auspices of BGCI.

[edit] External links

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International

[edit] Books

• Oldfield, Sara (2002). The Trade in Wildlife: Regulation for Conservation. Cambridge: Earthscan Publications. ISBN 185383954X. 
• Oldfield, Sara (2007). Great Botanic Gardens of the World. UK: New Holland Publishers Ltd. ISBN 1845375939. 
• IUCN/SSC Cactus and Succulent Specialist Group; Oldfield, Sara (1997). Cactus And Succulent Plants: Status Survey And Conservation Action Plan. World Conservation Union. ISBN 2831703905. 
• Oldfield, Sara (2003). Rainforest. The MIT Press. ISBN 0262151065. 
• Oldfield, Sara (2004). Deserts: The Living Drylands. The MIT Press. ISBN 026215112X. 
• Oldfield, Sara; McGough, Noel (2007). A CITES manual for botanic gardens. Second edition.. Richmond, United Kingdom: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. ISBN 1-905164-19-X.