The Sylvan Botanic Garden includes ex-situ conservation of identified species, research, capacity building, generation of knowledge products and rehabilitation and recovery programmes with respect to ex-situ conservation of identified species. The Lead Botanic Gardens would serve as important node in the network of other Botanic Gardens of the region in terms of exchanging knowledge and plant material of the identified threatened and endemic species and also ensuring maintenance of such plant ‘species’ populations. The knowledge generation activity undertaken in the Lead Botanic Gardens is linked to the ultimate management objective of ex-situ conservation.