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Botanic Gardens and Human Survival?

March 31, 2015 by Julia Brine Leave a Comment

Duncan and I recently attended the New England Wild Flower Society’s gala Founder’s Dinner, honoring Dr. Paul Smith, Secretary General, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.

Dr. Paul Smith

Dr. Smith was awarded their 2015 Founder’s Medal for his exceptional achievements as Head of the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His compelling talk was about plant diversity and human survival. Dr. Smith highlighted the role botanical gardens play internationally in preserving seed for the future.

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Filed Under: Arboretums, Brine Garden, Climate Change, endangered species, Environment, GARDEN LARGE, Gardens, Nature, NEWFS, Plants, Private Gardens, Public Gardens, Public Lands, Speakers, World Tagged With: BCGI, Botanical Garden Conservation International, Dr. Paul Smith, human survival, New England Wild Flower Society, NEWFS, plant diversity

Cross-pollinated Connecticut Chestnut Comeback

December 12, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • Forest management efforts in Connecticut paying off as American chestnut tree makes a comeback | The Republic

  • via Ct Environmental Headlines

    • Scientists have been working on restoration since the 1930s, and in the last several years, American chestnut specialist Sandy Anagnostakis has been breeding blight-resistant trees by crossing the American species with its Chinese cousin, which carries a resistant gene.

       

      Some 200 of those blight-resistant seedlings were planted on 2.5 acres at Belding in 2009, and while mortality is eventually expected to reach 50 percent due to die-off from natural competition, Seymour said the vast majority of the trees are thriving.

    • Eventually, the native trees will reach maturity and begin cross-pollinating with the newly planted blight-resistant strain, creating seedlings genetically similar to trees native to the site that also carry genes resistant to blight.

Filed Under: Connecticut, endangered species, Enlightening, Environment, Forest management, Native Plants, Northeast, Public Lands, Wildlife Tagged With: Connecticut, Environment, Native Plants, Nature, Public land, Sustainabilty, Wildlife

Do Your Best with the Anthropocene

December 8, 2011 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • The Age of Man Is Not a Disaster – NYTimes.com

    • Yes, we live in the Anthropocene — but that does not mean we inhabit an ecological hell. Our management and care of natural places and the millions of other species with which we share the planet could and should be improved.

Filed Under: Climate Change, endangered species, Enlightening, Environment, Nature, Sustainability, The New York Times, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Anthropocene, Environment, Nature, Principles, Sustainabilty, The New York Times, Wildlife

As Climate Warms, Species May Need to Migrate or Perish

April 23, 2009 by Duncan Brine Leave a Comment

  • As Climate Warms, Species May Need to Migrate or Perish by Carl Zimmer: Yale Environment 360

  • With global warming pushing some animals and plants to the brink of extinction, conservation biologists are now saying that the only way to save some species may be to move them.

    • This strategy — which goes by various names including assisted migration, assisted colonization, and, most recently, managed relocation — only emerged in the scientific literature in 2007. Over the past two years it has attracted widespread interest. A number of scientists are now investigating how they can pick new homes for endangered species and move them safely.

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