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British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.
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A gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids – and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe.
Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In some places, listening to a nighttime chorus of frogs in the neighbourhood marsh was an archetypal touchstone of childhood. Children would search for tadpoles, just steps away from native Lady's Tresses orchids. Year by year, the chorus became quieter. Today, only a few frogs and orchids remain. Is this the world we want our children to inherit? Do we want orchids to slip through our fingers and, eventually, to vanish?
For biologists Philip Seaton and Lawrence W. Zettler, and the intrepid orchid defenders they introduce in this book, the answer is no. Seaton and Zettler have travelled the world over the past three decades, studying orchids – flagship species for plant conservation. Stunningly illustrated, Saving Orchids is a culmination of stories about the people – young and old alike – dedicated to protecting these remarkable plants from extinction. In the 19th century, collectors removed, shipped, and sold vast numbers of orchids from the wild. Today, scientists strive to reverse this harm – to protect and rebuild remnants of orchids' original habitats against human disruption, including climate change. Seaton and Zettler reveal these plants' bizarre pollination partners, risky liaisons with fungi, and adaptation to human domestication to show that learning orchids' scientific secrets – and finding human helpers – is key to these plants' survival.
Introduction
1. Ghosts in the ‘land of flowers’
2. The crown jewels of the plant kingdom
3. The way we were
4. Orchids (almost) everywhere
5. Islands
6. Where are we most likely to find new species?
7. What’s in a name?
8. Why we should care
9. Life (and death) in the anthropocene
10. Orchids on the edge
11. Who is doing what and where?
12. Where do we go from here?
13. Education: the teachers and the storytellers
14. Reserves
15. Reintroduction, restoration, and enhancement
16. Slippers
17. Living collections: safeguarding plants for the future
18. Seed storage
19. The way ahead
Further reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Philip Seaton is a Churchill Fellow and Project Manager for the Darwin Initiative project and has travelled widely to study orchid conservation since retiring as a biology teacher. Lawrence W. Zettler is a biology professor at Illinois College and a research associate at the Chicago Botanic Garden. He illustrated two entomology books and has co-authored over 70 scientific papers.
"Beginning and ending with Florida's iconic ghost orchid, Seaton and Zettler bring to life the heroic efforts of people from all walks of life caring about and protecting orchids. They show how profoundly humans have affected life on Earth but also how inspirational actions by dedicated individuals are central to the fate of orchids, the 'canaries in the coal mine' for environmental change. Orchids teach us that the fate of nature is in our hands."
– Sandra Knapp, author of Extraordinary Orchids
"Saving Orchids is a remarkable and extremely timely book – and some would say it is overdue. Seaton and Zettler outline the many mistakes made over the last few centuries that landed us in rather dire straits as well as some of the modern solutions that could be employed by diverse stakeholders. Awareness is the key to creating change. I believe positive change is possible if Saving Orchids is widely read by the upcoming generation of conservationists, botanists, and orchid enthusiasts."
– Tom Mirenda, coauthor of The Book of Orchids