Saving Endangered Plants
Peter Taggart (Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:48:14 PDT)
I have never come accros this organisation but if Galanthus nivalis were not
CITES, as I understand it is, along with other species of snowdrop, I could
send thousands of garden sourced bulbs to anyone who wanted them, removing
the presure on wild populations from unscrupulous collector/ vendors and the
same principle applies to other protected plants.
Peter (UK)
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Tony Avent <Tony@plantdelights.com> wrote:
Shirley:
I'm glad you posted a note about the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC).
As I've tried to explain to several members, the nursery industry would be
the perfect partner, not only in being able to actually grow the plants, but
we could do wonders with ex-situ conservation by spreading the plants around
widely to collectors in this changing climate.