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To help raise awareness of the plight currently facing the world’s tree species, the GTC organised a suite of tree conservation talks on Tree Tuesday of BGCI’s Sixth Global Botanic Garden Congress to place threatened trees firmly in the limelight. Here Yvette Harvey-Brown reports on the major discussion points of Tree Tuesday.
By Alexa Cook
Conservationists are fighting to save New Zealand's most threatened tree by using DNA profiling and cracking down on possum control.
There are only 14 rātā moehau trees left in the wild, found at the top of North Island near Spirits Bay in the Unuwhao Forest and Te Paki. Out of those, just five have the distinct genotypes needed for genetic diversity, which is crucial to its survival.
by Kirsty Shaw
The Global Trees Campaign aims to avoid all tree extinctions in the wild. An important component of conservation action must be ex situ conservation: securing a species outside of its natural range, as a back-up measure in case remaining wild populations are lost. Our new report, released today, highlights that only 74% of the most threatened trees are absent from ex situ collections, lacking this vital conservation action that could save them from extinction.
