February 2019 News For our February issue of SavePlants, we take a look at some of our imperiled plants that challenge ...
Volunteer’s Love of Plants Helps Conserve Parasitic Vine About me: I’m a vine and a pretty rare find – my populations are small, though spread over a wid...
Conservation Champion: Ed Guerrant, Ph.D., The CPC family pays tribute to our friend and colleague Ed O. Guerrant, Jr. as he embarks on his new...
If your plants don’t have records, do they exist? San Diego Zoo Global Rare plant collections require a daunting combination of skill, time, and luck. To ensure that this ...
Branching Out For Oak Conservation Morton Arboretum Over 30 percent of tree species globally have seeds and can’t be saved through seed banking – in...
Learning from Monitoring: Improving Plant Reintroductions Over Time Missouri Botanical Garden Reintroductions are tricky, but also an important opportunity to learn about the species being reint...
Strategizing Collections with Genetic Research Montgomery Botanical Center Trekking around the world to amazing habitats palms and cycads call home to make collections, the st...
January 2019 News CPC’s model of collaborative work and a shared responsibility to Save Plants, a world first, has b...
New Participating Institutions The UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden (ArbPG) is on-campus living museum focused on having deep i...
CPC Accomplishments The Center for Plant Conservation is a leader, bringing plant conservation practitioners together to...
Save Plants: December 2018 Newsletter Welcome to the final issue of SavePlants for 2018. As we regularly do this time of year, we both ref...
New Leadership in CPC I’d like to personally welcome CPC’s new board chair, Lynde B. Uihlein, from Milwaukee, WI. She ...
Conservation Champion: Spencer Crews Recently retired, Spencer Crews is still active with the garden that, as its executive director for ...
CPC Accomplishments: Apply Projects spearheaded by CPC helped move the number of plants in the National Collection to 1485 and ...
Conservation Champion: Edward Schneider, Ph.D. Trustee Edward Schneider Ph.D., currently serves as President and Executive Director of BRIT, but ha...
Tech to Connect The demanding work of plant conservation often leaves little time or energy to share its importance ...
Changing the Approach Growing on a cliff side in Hawaii a lone alula, or cabbage on a stick (Brighamia insignis) is the la...
November 2018 News Let’s face it, we live in a technologically-focused world. Most people these days spend more time ...
