Orchid Habitat Restoration and Preservation
Click on picture or text next to the picture to go to webpage.Australia
Australian Not In
Flower Orchid
Identification Charts and InformationEnviornmental Assessment for a proposed Development Site Australian
Arachnorchis
(Caladenia) rosella
Orchid saved May 2009About 140 plants are left in situ in two habiitat spots. One habitat was up for development but is now up for sale. Both the Trust for Nature and the Dunmoochin Foundation are charitable trusts.
Arachnorchis (Caladenia) pumila - Back from Extinction
The plant is Arachnorchis pumila (syn. Caladenia pumila) and it has been rediscovered by a Victorian couple in the south west of the state. Read Alan Stephenson's full story and see a spetacular picture of this rediscovered orchid thought to be extinct.
Australia Orchid Trio
Habitat
for Danhatchia australis is steep leech infested rain forest but
Acianthella amplexicaulis is Littoral Rain Forest/Bangalay Sand Forest,
which means it is semi rainforest beside the ocean. The Speculantha
parviflora habitat is completely different in that it is thin heath
vegetation over sand stone rock shelf.
Corunastylis nudiscapa
A terrestrial orchid species thought to be extinct in Tasmania has recently been rediscovered.
Heriitage Estate (and Nebraska Estate) Genoplesium baueri, Cryptostylis hunteriana, Spiranthes australis, and Speculantha ventricosa
Fiona
Stanley Hospital Terestrial Orchid SiteThe Western Australian Government’s Environment Protection Authority wished to preserve some of the native vegetation for replanting on the site once the hospital was completed.
Canada
Brokenhead
Wetland Ecological ReserveSoliciting donations to build a boardwalk and interpretive trail Complete
Greece
The
Orchids of Crete and
their ConservationThe Greek island of Crete is botanically very rich, with a wide variety of habitats and a high level of endemism (approx.9%). However, conservation both of habitats and species has a low priority, especially in the current economic climate.
Ecuador
Jardìn Botànico Las OrquìdeasOrchid and Botanical Garden of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Owner Omar Tello and his wife began restoring the land by planting trees, but they soon discovered that the land would not permit trees to grow, as the soil was extremely sandy and lacking in nutrients, characteristic of much of the Amazon basin. However, using organic materials such as chicken manure and sawdust, soil conditions improved and native plants began to grow. Over the years, Omar began to collect orchids from logged forests in the region and transplanted them to the reserve.
Jardìn Botànico Las Orquìdeas
Request for donations to buy land for reforestation and as a wildlife corridor.
Ex situ Conservation
The
Challenges of Ex situ Orchid ConservationWhat the words “ex situ orchid conservation” bring to the minds for most of us is the growing of orchid species plants in cultivation. It can also mean the gathering and saving of orchid seeds, and DNA. One goal of ex situ orchid conservation is to save a species ex situ as it disappears in situ. A further, though unrealistic goal for many species, is to reintroduce the species back into the wild.
USA
Bluestem
Farm, WisconsinWhen I bought our 80-acre farm (now 118 acre) eight years ago, orchids were not on my mind. I wanted woods to provide enough oak to warm our house during the winter and tillable land to start a nativeplant-seed nursery. I thought orchids were plants of unspoiled wilderness, not of old farms with overgrazed pasture, prickly ash and corn stubble.
Carney
Fen, WIWisconsin's natural communities provide habitat for approximately 50 native orchid species and over 600 state natural areas where many orchid species are found. I am involved with a small group of native orchid enthusiasts, Friends of Carney Fen, who uses several methods of orchid conservation including preservation, propagation and restoration of habitat locally and in the nearby Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Grande
Ronde Overlook Wildflower Institute Serving Ecological Restoration
(GROWISER),
La Grande, Oregon
The GROWISER native plant preserve was originally founded in 1993 as a
non-profit corporation to preserve a pristine 160 acre site in
northeastern Oregon. Included among the 190 native plants on the
preserve, are nine orchids. It is hoped that the GROWISER model will be
used to establish many more orchid preserves.
Monitoring
orchids for conservation in West VirginiaJulie Powelson, an undergraduate biology major from Shinnston, WV who is working under the supervision of Dr. Katharine Gregg, Professor of Biology, West Virginia Wesleyan College, has recently become involved in several orchid field projects.
Myrtle
Head Savanna, North CarolinaWe have thinned out 10 acres, burned the north unit 2 times and the southern unit once. The response has been amazing. Where we opened up and burned, I have never seen so many Carolina Grass of Parnassus in on site.
North American Conservation Center
Endanagered
Orchids 2014 Gallery: https://northamericanorchidcenter.org/featured/Go Orchids (https://goorchids.northamericanorchidcenter.org/) is a tool to explore orchids native to the U.S. and Canada. Go Orchids will initially focus on orchids in New England and the mid-Atlantic. Orchids of the southeast and Alaska will be added this year and all remaining orchids in two years.
To recieve updates on news about the OCC e-mail: info@orchidconservationcoalition.org