For those interested in rare and endangered plants, come to visit Brooklyn Botanic Garden (NYC) . See story below. There's more on our website www.bbg.org Ellen Kirby
BBG's Wolemmi Pine is generating international news coverage - below is the Associated Press news item that ran on the national news wire too so it will be picked up by most local newspapers. It has already run in the Hobart Mercury, (Australia) newspaper, a newspaper in Malaysia, and Lois heard the news about BBG and the Wollemi pine on WNYC FM on Sunday morning at 8:19 a.m. And Courier Life ran a photo and feature: http://www.kingscourier.net/site/tab2.cfm?newsid=17766522&BRD=2384&PAG=4 61&dept_id=552848&rfi=6 We are working on news features with NY Daily News and the NY Times, which will run on Thursday, 2/1. Associated Press Worldstream January 27, 2007 Saturday 11:11 PM GMT Holy botany! Rare tree comes to Brooklyn Botanic Garden SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS LENGTH: 181 words DATELINE: NEW YORK Holy botany!The Brooklyn Botanic Garden says visitors can now observe the extremely rare Wollemi pine, frequently referred to as a major botanical find of the last century. Thought to be extinct for 2 million years, a small grove of Wollemi pine was found in Australia in 1994. The species managed to survive through 17 ice ages, leading scientists to try to solve the secrets of its resiliency.Fewer than 100 of the trees exist in the wild, so a plant-propagation and commercialization initiative was launched to preserve them in their native habitat.A limited number of trees from that effort are being offered for sale at the Brooklyn garden. The royalties will go toward conservation efforts.The Wollemi pine belongs to the ancient coniferous family Araucariaceae, whose fossil record dates back over 200 million years to the time of the dinosaurs, the BBG said."The discovery of a plant long thought to be extinct and only known through fossils is an exciting and remarkable story that fires the imagination," Scot Medbury, president of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, said in a statement. Leeann Lavin Director of Communications Brooklyn Botanic Garden 718-623-7289 leeannlavin at bbg.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070130/e102b7ea/attachment.html
