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Saving South Africa's Floral Heritage

From National Geographic News: Climate change, sprawl, and alien-species invasion are threatening South Africa's fynbos, the main vegetation type of the smallest, yet richest, of the world's six floral kingdoms. Now conservationists are using data gathered by hundreds of volunteers in a long-term effort to save the fynbos.
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Posted May 16 2007, 09:11 AM by NGS WildCam Community Advisor

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Panluna wrote re: Saving South Africa's Floral Heritage
on 09-06-2007 3:27 PM

The Protea is such a beautiful plant.It's named after the God Proteus who was a shape-shifter.The South African government can regulate export.Also they can set up a sanctuary or horticultural area as a natural park and preserve the region the plants come from.The only thing that  we can't change is the planet's climate and all lifeforms have to live with that fact--only the strongest and most adaptable survive.Of course they can keep samples of the plants in various greenhouses.We have the technology to save our endangered species including ourselves if we eradicate destruction.