As the Global Trees Campaign publishes a series of practical guidelines for tree conservation, Fauna & Flora International’s Dave Gill explains why we need to make these techniques more accessible to the wider conservation community. The world’s tree species are in urgent need of assistance. With more than 9,000 species sliding towards extinction, there is…
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching so we asked our Global Tree Specialist Group (GTSG) members to tell us about their favourite threatened trees and why they love them. Lonely hearts don’t only exist in newspaper columns. Sadly all these trees are under a very real threat of extinction, our members share their stories of lost loves. Lost Loves…
The ArbNet website has recently been updated, making it easier to use and expanding the resources available to support the common purposes and interests of tree-focused public gardens. The ArbNet website has been organised into new sections, allowing for quicker navigation to find the information you are looking for. ArbNet can now be used in many…
The Red List of montane tree species of the tropical Andes has recently been published, assessing 127 tree species. Andean montane forests are a major global conservation priority owing to their biological richness and high level of species endemism however they remain relatively unstudied. As with montane forests elsewhere in the world, Andean forests are…
Twenty-one Ziyuan fir (Abies ziyuanensis) trees have been discovered after 8 months of intensive fieldwork in Yinzhulaoshan Provincial Nature Reserve (NR), Guangxi, China. The Ziyuan fir (Abies ziyuanensis) is an Endangered tree from southern China with less than 600 individuals remaining in the wild. It is known from only three places in the world, including Yinzhulaoshan Provincial…
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species sees the addition of new or updated entries of trees. More trees than ever have now been identified as threatened (www.iucnredlist.org), reaching 9,910 – representing 66% of all the trees listed on the IUCN Red List. The latest additions to the Red List include 128…
“Which tree species are internationally traded for timber?” A simple enough question, although the answer was not as simple to come by. A list of timber species has been compiled in order to provide a composite working list of timber tree species in trade. The trade in timber products contributes billions of dollars to global…
Georgina Magin, Fauna & Flora International’s Global Trees Campaign manager, writes about her recent trip to visit some of Madagascar’s most charismatic flora. After driving through the eroded highlands of central Madagascar, we descend to the western plain and see the first Grandidier’s baobabs (known locally as Renala) towering like skyscrapers over the fields and…
FFI’s Global Trees Campaign Programme Officer, David Gill, makes a case to increase support for the world’s Critically Endangered tree species When challenged to make a case for tree conservation, it can be all too easy to count on some well used facts and figures. To set the scene I could refer to the 100,000…
Surveys carried out by Center for Plant Conservation Vietnam (CPCV) have identified new populations of a number of threatened species including the Critically Endangered Magnolia grandis. The new findings come after over two weeks of fieldwork in forests surrounding the villages of Phieng Luong and Phieng Phoc in northern Vietnam. Among a number of new…
The conservation of Asia’s threatened trees will be highlighted at the 3rd Regional Conference for the Society of Conservation Biology – Asia section. During one of the world’s largest conservation conferences (see SCB Asia 2014), a symposium dedicated to the conservation of Asia’s threatened tree species will take place on Thursday August 21st 2014, in Melaka,…
Conservationists have joined forces with local communities to plant 10,000 trees from threatened species into community forests near Mt. Cameroon. In a bid to enhance the conservation of several threatened tree species present in the Mt. Cameroon area, project staff from the Cameroonian NGO, ERuDeF (Environment and Rural Development Foundation) collaborated with members from local…