[Community_garden] FW: [tb-cybergardens]: FW: Wollemi

[Kirby, Ellen]

For those interested in rare and endangered plants, come to  visit
Brooklyn Botanic Garden  (NYC) .  See   story below.     There's more on
our website www.bbg.org
 
 Ellen Kirby

 

BBG's Wolemmi Pine is generating international news coverage - below is
the Associated Press news item that ran on the national news wire too so
it will be picked up by most local newspapers.

It has already run in the Hobart Mercury, (Australia) newspaper, a
newspaper in Malaysia, and Lois heard the news about BBG and the Wollemi
pine on WNYC FM on Sunday morning at 8:19 a.m. 

And Courier Life ran a photo and feature:

http://www.kingscourier.net/site/tab2.cfm?newsid=17766522&BRD=2384&PAG=4
61&dept_id=552848&rfi=6

 

We are working on news features with NY Daily News and the NY Times,
which will run on Thursday, 2/1.

 

 

  

 

Associated Press Worldstream


January 27, 2007 Saturday 11:11 PM GMT 


Holy botany! Rare tree comes to Brooklyn Botanic Garden

SECTION: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

LENGTH: 181 words

DATELINE: NEW YORK 

Holy botany!The Brooklyn Botanic Garden says visitors can now observe
the extremely rare Wollemi pine, frequently referred to as a major
botanical find of the last century. Thought to be extinct for 2 million
years, a small grove of Wollemi pine was found in Australia in 1994. The
species managed to survive through 17 ice ages, leading scientists to
try to solve the secrets of its resiliency.Fewer than 100 of the trees
exist in the wild, so a plant-propagation and commercialization
initiative was launched to preserve them in their native habitat.A
limited number of trees from that effort are being offered for sale at
the Brooklyn garden. The royalties will go toward conservation
efforts.The Wollemi pine belongs to the ancient coniferous family
Araucariaceae, whose fossil record dates back over 200 million years to
the time of the dinosaurs, the BBG said."The discovery of a plant long
thought to be extinct and only known through fossils is an exciting and
remarkable story that fires the imagination," Scot Medbury, president of
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, said in a statement.

 

Leeann Lavin

Director of Communications

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

 

718-623-7289

 

leeannlavin at bbg.org

 

 

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