[PCA] NEWS: Center for Plant Conservation's National Collection of Endangered Species Reaches a Record 700 Species

[Addsum-Tony Frates]

I'm grateful for the CPC and applaud their efforts generally. 

However, no one should rest any easier.  

These efforts represent at best a tiny measure of comfort for an 
otherwise devastating scenario.   

Further,  the stated goal of  “ . . .  to return and sustain these 
plants in America’s landscape" is harmful in the sense that is simply 
feeds the widespread and generally accepted public notion that 
rare/native plants can simply be manipulated and moved and re-grown 
somewhere else.   Many can't.  And it ignores the ecosystem; we're 
not just trying to protect any given single species in isolation from 
everything else.

It is nice to have restoration as a possible ultimate option, but 
from a conservation standpoint it is tantamount to failure.


Tony Frates







Date sent:      	Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:16:48 -0500 (CDT)
From:           	Olivia Kwong <plant at plantconservation.org>
To:             	native-plants at lists.plantconservation.org
Subject:        	[PCA] NEWS: Center for Plant Conservation's National Collection of
	Endangered Species Reaches a Record 700 Species

> http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/CPCNews.html
> 
> CENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION'S NATIONAL COLLECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES 
> REACHES A RECORD 700 SPECIES
> 
> ST. LOUIS, Mo. (October 6, 2008) -- We can all rest a little easier about 
> the future of America's most endangered plants. The Center for Plant 
> Conservation (CPC) reached a satisfying goal on Friday October 3. 
> Furthering their work to combat the dwindling numbers of plant species, 
> the Board of Trustees added six Colorado species to the National 
> Collection of Endangered Plants. With these additions CPC has added 60 
> species this year, and the number of plant species safeguarded in seed 
> banks and living collections has passed the 700 mark. The Collection has 
> over nine million seed providing a working seed bank for restoration of 
> the vulnerable native plants of the United States.
> 
> See the link above for the full text of the press release.
> 
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