1% for Orchid Conservation Update
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Hello All,
Summary of News:
1. North American
Orchid Conservation Center
participates in the
OCC 1%FOC
2. Fiona Stanley Hospital Terrestrial Orchid
Site Conservation
3. Orchid
Society shows that participate in 1% for Orchid Conservation
4. A
reminder about 1% FOC donation for 2013 Reporting
5. OCA trip to Brazil
to visit Reserva Serra Bonita,
Chapada Diamantina, and Salvador, Bahia
1.North American Orchid
Conservation Center participates the OCC
& 1% FOC
North American
Orchid Conservation Center
NAOCC is a coalition of organizations dedicated to conserving the
diverse orchid heritage of the U.S. and Canada. Based at the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, it also includes the
National Zoological Park, the National Museum of Natural History, and
Smithsonian Gardens. The U.S. Botanic Garden is the other founding
partner. The initial group of public and private organizations that
support NAOCC have joined forces with a common goal: to ensure the
survival of native orchids for future generations. To this end, NAOCC’s
collaborators are working to preserve habitats, create and maintain
national collections of seeds and orchid mycorrhizal fungi, and support
research on orchid ecology, conservation and restoration. An important
goal of NAOCC is to provide the public with opportunities to join in
the effort to conserve native orchids.
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2. Fiona Stanley Hospital Terrestrial Orchid
Site Conservation
Species Orchid Society of Western Australia was asked, by
Warren McGrath and Anthony McEwen of Strategen, about rescuing some of
the orchids from the site on which the Fiona Stanley Hospital was to be
built. The 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.
Read full story: https://www.orchidconservationcoalition.org/pr/fionastanleyhospital.html
Recently some of the orchids were pulled up by gardeners as
weeds. So there is will be education of gardeners and replanting of
orchids,
the frailty of conservation.
The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia was one of the
first orchid societies to join back in 2005.
The
replanting team on 23rd July 2013
Thelymitra cornicina
Lilac Sun Orchid
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3. Orchid
Society Shows that participate in 1% for Orchid Conservation
You will want to include Orchid Quest 2014 in your New Year’s
Resolutions. Hold the dates February 1 and 2, 2014! https://www.orchidguild.org/orchidquest.html
The San Francisco Orchid Society invites everyone to paint the town
with "Orchids and All that Jazz" , February 20-23, 2014. https://www.orchidsanfrancisco.org/poe.html
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4. A
reminder about 1% FOC donation for 2013 reporting, we are
shooting
for a wrap up date of March 2, 2013 (60 days after the start of the New
Year). The date matters less than the donation. The donation goes to
the orchid conservation organization or project of your choice.
To any orchid society that has a different fiscal year then
the calendar year disregard the date. Yours would be 60 days after the
close of your fiscal year. I believe there are two orchid societies
that this concerns.
To those orchid societies that have already made a 2013
donation and have let me know, I thank you. It makes my job easier and
makes the OCC function smoother.
All individual orchid society donation amounts and to whom are
confidential. I add the donation totals together so we can gauge how we
are doing as a whole.
Thank you for your support for orchid conservation,
Mark Sullivan
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5.
Proposed ‘Orchids in the
Wild’ trip to Brazil
to visit Reserva Serra Bonita,
Chapada Diamantina, and Salvador, Bahia
March 14 - March 29, 2014
The OCA has recently invested in Reserva Serra Bonita, near Ilheus,
Brazil, as part of our program to protect orchid habitat. Because
interest in this reserve is high, we have designed a trip to visit
there and to visit other orchid sites in the nearby region of Chapada
Diamantina. Please click on the link to learn more and to view the
proposed itinerary.
https://attachment.benchmarkemail.com/c331141/2014_
trip_to_Brazil_narrative_offering.pdf
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