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- Blueprint for conserving plant diversity. Mlot, Christine // BioScience;Jun89, Vol. 39 Issue 6, p364
Discusses conservation efforts to establish a living collection of rare and endangered plants in botanical gardens. Number of plant species known to be endangered in the world and in the United States according to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre of the International Union for...
- Partnerships for Plant Conservation in Texas. Cobb, Robyn; Janssen, Gena // Endangered Species Bulletin;Jan/Feb2004, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p4
Focuses on the development of a recovery plan for the endangered Johnston's frankenia, a semi-woody perennial of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Need to fill information gaps about the plant's habitat requirements, population biology and ecology; Partnership between Texas Parks and Wildlife...
- Eggert's Sunflower Prospers at Arnold AFB. Sizemore, Darbie // Endangered Species Update;2007, Vol. 24 Issue 1, Special section p26
The article reports that a cooperative management agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, is partly responsible for the removal of Eggert's sunflower or Helianthus eggertii from the...
- Thieves take rare wild plants from Kent site. Kimberley, Miranda // Horticulture Week;1/31/2008, p7
The article reports on the stolen rare wild plants from a protected reserve in Kent, England. It is stated that the whole population of meadow clary (Salvia pratensis), otherwise known as the "crown jewels" of British flora, have been dug up by thieves from conservation charity Plantlife's...
- Call for gardeners to grow more endangered plant species. // Horticulture Week;4/17/2008, p8
The article reports on the call made by Plant Network chairman Matthew Jebb regarding the need to grow endangered native plants to meet target eight of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) in Great Britain. Target eight aims for 60% of threatened plant species to be accessible by...
- Audubon at home: HOLLYWOOD NATIVE. Tweit, Susan J. // Audubon;Jul/Aug2005, Vol. 107 Issue 4, p28
The article informs about a real-life crusade by American actress Rene Russo to save her hometown's true heritage: its indigenous plants. At the end of a lane in the Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles, California, an ocher retaining wall topped with native sandstone rises above the road...
- Biotechnologies sow seeds for the future. Woolf, Norma Bennett // BioScience;May90, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p346
Discusses various methods of conserving rare and endangered plants. Tissue culture; Seed storage; Ways to preserve species.
- Wake Up Call is flowering throughout Europe. // Cuttings;Jul2008, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p9
The article discusses the wake-up call to the European public on awareness about plant conservation initiated by the new European Plant Conservation Strategy. It tells that the initiative, which is based on Great Britain's "County Flowers," is now undertaken in 12 European countries. It adds...
- EX SITU PLANT CONSERVATION: A KEY ROLE OF CHINESE BOTANIC GARDENS IN IMPLEMENTING CHINA'S STRATEGY FOR PLANT CONSERVATION. Hongwen Huang // BGjournal;Jul2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p14
The article discusses the role of the Chinese botanical gardens in the implementation of China's Strategy for Plant Conservation (CSPC). It mentions that these botanical gardens had prioritized the conservation of threatened species. Meanwhile, the CSPC had aimed to deal with the urgent issues...
