Press Room

Past Press Releases

2024

June 19, 2024
Scot Medbury Selected as Interim CEO of the Center for Plant Conservation

2023

September 25, 2023
Native Plant Summit to Highlight the Critical Importance of Endangered Plants
January 2, 2023
The Center For Plant Conservation Selects New President and CEO

2022

April 5, 2022
The Center for Plant Conservation Announces Retirement of President and CEO, Dr. Joyce Maschinski

CPC In The News

2025

March 2025
Yale Environment 360 | Imperiled in the Wild, Many Plants May Survive Only in Gardens

2024

October 2024
WUFT | Inside the Grassroots ‘Plant Rescue Ops’ to Save Florida’s Native Species
March 2024
The Real Dirt, Issue 66 | Propagating with a Purpose

2023

December 2023
Samara | Using RNA as a Next-generation Metric of Seed Health in the Wild Rare Plants of the US
August 2023
AP | California’s Big Bloom Aids Seed Collectors
May 2023
The New York Times | California Wildflower Hunt

2022

November 2022
The Mercury News | California Plant Rescue: The Race to Save Precious Wild Seeds and Sprouts
September 2022
Naples Florida Weekly | A Seed of an Idea
June 2022
The San Diego Union Tribune | Saving Torrey Pines at State Reserve a Complicated Puzzle to Solve

2021

January 2021
Undark | Breathing Life Into the Corpse Flower

2020

May 2020
In Defense of Plants | What It Takes to Save Plants