Category: Endangered Plants
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Disappearing Leaves? Disappearing Frogs!
A decline in the amount of leaves on the ground could be behind the rapid demise of frog species.
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Brazil Nuts Save The Communities That Protect Them
Help is at hand for the Amazon rainforest and Brazil's poverty-stricken rural people – courtesy of the country's famous native nut.
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Surviving Only In The Greenhouse
THE only surviving specimens of one of the world's rarest plants have gone on display after cuttings taken from a Malaysian mountain by Scots scientists more than a decade ago flourished while the flower died out in its native habitat.
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Three Wise Mens Gift Becoming Threatened Species
For thousands of years, frankincense has been hugely important both socially and economically as an ingredient in incense and perfumes. But… its production in the Horn of Africa is declining because Boswellia woodlands are failing to regenerate.
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The Majestic Live Oak is Losing its Battle for Survival
An icon in American history and literature, broad-crowned live oaks thrive in open savannas but are dying off as they are crowded and overshadowed by the encroachment of taller trees.
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Endangered Plants Like Money in the Bank?
The department says the scheme will ensure much more biodiversity is protected as well as speeding up the planning process and providing developers with more certainty. It hopes biobanking will eventually replace the Threatened Species Conservation Act, which all parties say has failed the environment.
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When Bees Disappear Plants Follow
In Britain, where bee diversity has fallen and hoverflies have at best held steady, there have been declines in 70% of the wildflowers that require insects for pollination. However, wind-pollinated or self-pollinating plants have held constant or increased
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You Can’t Restore Habitat if You Can’t Get The Seed: Prairie Version
The couple never planned to spend five years building a harvester, but like a barbed needle-and-thread grass seed, once the idea got in their heads they couldn't pull it out.
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Plant Collectors Push Evolutionary Changes
Commercial collecting of wild plants in the Himalayas becomes unnatural selection.
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Wild American Chestnuts Discovered
It is a rare opportunity to see an entire stand, albeit a small one, of American chestnut trees, many of which are in the forest canopy.