Institutional Partners on trail: Conference – Ethiopia’s green treasures

This talk is organised in collaboration with the NGO ‘Regards d’Enfants d’Ethiopie’ to mark the centenary of the diplomatic visit of Ras Teferi Mekonnen to Luxembourg. Ras Teferi Mekonnen, later known as Haile Selassie I, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, a period of big political upheaval and change in Ethiopia and internationally. I’ll be speaking about the beauty of Ethiopia’s plants, both wild and cultivated, and their importance to the future of urban life.

Speaker: Odile Weber

Odile curates the plant and fungal collections of the Naturmusée. She has done field work and taught herbarium techniques in the Republic of the Congo and three periods in the field in remote eastern and western parts of Ethiopia. Notable publications include a monograph on the woody vegetation between the Ethiopian highlands and the lowlands of the Nile Valley in the Sudan and South Sudan and a perspectives paper in Nature Sustainability entitled “Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity”.

Tickets: https://booking.mnhn.lu

Date and time: 22 July 2025 – 18:30-20:00
Venue: Alzette valley
Price: Free of charge
Registration: Available soon