News & Blog – April 2013

CITES takes decisive action to protect tropical tree species

Posted on April 3rd 2013 by David Gill

Fauna & Flora International and Belizean partner Ya’axché Conservation Trust have commended a CITES decision to strengthen protection for tropical hardwoods, write Gail Stott and David Gill. Valuable but highly threatened rosewoods and ebonies have a more secure future after a historic decision at the recent CITES meeting in Bangkok. These trees produce stunning timber that is…

Rhododendron experts meet to develop an action plan for threatened species

Posted on April 1st 2013 by Kirsty Shaw

The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE), the Rhododendron Species Conservation Group and Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) jointly hosted a two-day conference with the aim to develop a coordinated action plan to save threatened Rhododendron species from extinction in the wild. The Red List of Rhododendrons published in 2011, showed that a quarter of the…