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@aligyie@digitalcourage.social
2025-07-02 12:48:41

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

"The primary vegetation around Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary is wet evergreen, medium elevation rainforest."
"Laly Joseph, the head of plant conservation at Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, has spent most of her life learning about and caring for plants."
"An explosion of Alsophila spinulosa tree ferns, also known as flying spider-monkey tree fern. These are native species found in tropical and subtropical forests across Asia. An abundance of ferns can mean a healthy, high-quality habitat with minimal human disturbance."

Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants
In one of the world’s ‘hottest hotspots’ of biodiversity, an all-female team have turned a patch of forest into a haven for orchids, ferns, succulents and carnivorous plants