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Green glue saved
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Green glue saved
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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St Helena's Agriculture and Forestry Department is under taking a five-year programme to reintroduce endemic plant species according to the British-based magazine 'International Agricultural Development'. The UK's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew helped to save the plants from extinction by having a number of specimens flown to England from the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic and planted in a nursery in Kew Gardens. Then a grant from the World Wildlife Fund helped to purchase nursery facilities on the island. As a result, large-scale replanting of endangered species is taking place. St Helena has around 50 unique species. Some of them are known as 'green glue', because they help to stick earth together and have the potential to hold back the spread of desert For further information con tact: Mr Gren Lucas Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond Surrey GREAT BRITAIN St Helena's Agriculture and Forestry Department is under taking a five-year programme to reintroduce endemic plant species according to the British-based magazine 'International Agricultural Development'. The UK's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew helped... |
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2014-10-02T13:13:14Z
2014-10-02T13:13:14Z 1986 |
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News Item
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CTA. 1986. Green glue saved . Spore 6. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44554 |
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en
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Spore, Spore 6
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CTA
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Spore
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