by Did67 » 06/06/15, 12:00
Many European capitals have magnificent greenhouses (Kew in Great Britain, Berlin ...), a legacy of a time when States / Kingdoms invested without counting in science and the discovery of the world ... [well, let's face it frank and lucid: not unrelated to colonization, and not without an ulterior motive to assert its power; don't think it was just "generosity" or "science"!]
And a number of zoos, even if they are open to criticism from the point of view of treatment done to the animals (I speak here of historic zoos, antique, with animals penned in a few m2) were in the same spirit .. .
Today :
a) States do not even have the means to maintain them properly (except perhaps royalties, where the fact of the prince always weighs)
See the greenhouses of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris ...
b) people do not care overwhelmingly [I also, when I visit a city, I pass the Botanical Garden]!
I think, alas, that there are infinitely more people who "are interested" in the circus of Roland-Garros than in botany. The proof: the sponsors! If botany attracted so many admirers, Crédit Agricole - or another avid greenwashing brand! - would sponsor the greenhouses!
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