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Category: Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field

Documenting Diversity: The First Step in Conservation

In the conservation community, there is often nothing more rewarding than walking through a landscape that you had a hand in saving and knowing that you did good. You saved this rare and valuable natural treasure for future generations. This is conservation at its finest and what most in the conservation community strive for. But there’s so much more that goes into the process, and believe it or not, it’s the early steps that I find most exciting.

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Notes from the Field

Sustainable Ranching in Mexico

This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank. Mission: launching Alianca da Terra in Mexico. This blog: a visit

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Ericales Program

A Brand New Wintergreen (Plant, Not Gum)

BRIT’s new Herbarium Director Dr. Peter Fritsch and his Chinese colleagues published an exciting new species discovery in October: Gaultheria gonggashanensis, in the wintergreen genus of the heath

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Notes from the Field

Botanizing with La Mula Mil

This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank Riders:  Trudi Angell, Leslie Pringle, Theodora “Teddi” Montes, Karen Brown, Polly “Polita”

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