Category: Plants & People
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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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Healthy Mangroves Protect Human Communities
Places that had healthy coral reefs and intact mangroves, which act as natural buffers, were less badly hit by the tsunami.
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What We Can Do For Pollinators
Since pollination is essential to crop and plant life, the Convention on Biological Diversity has adopted the International Pollinators Initiative to promote the conservation and sustainable use of pollinator diversity in agriculture and related ecosystems.