IUCN Orchid Specialist Group

Thrilled to announce that the website for the 8th International Orchid Conservation Congress (#IOCC8) in Perth (12-14 September 2024 + fieldtrips) has been launched: iocc8.com. Save the dates! More information will come soon.

Thursday was a busy day! #Dendrophylax lindenii flowered for the first time in the UK - @kewgardens, and the Press loved it 😍. #FloridaGhostOrchid #Orchidaceae #orchids #conservation

@michaelffay60 @kewgardens @KewScience @ictrueblue @smithsonian @FairchildGarden @NaplesBotanical @StetsonU @UF @IUCN Congratulations to the team @KewScience @kewgardens @Illinois @ictrueblue @smithsonian @UF @StetsonU @FairchildGarden and @Naples - great to get the word out about the importance of #conservation of #orchids!

A silver medal for our exhibit at #ChelseaFlowerShow

More information can be found on the 23rd WOC website: en.woc23.com/or facebook.com/WOC23rdtw/ (Photo: Pleione formosana near Alishan)

TAIWAN WOC 2024 23rd World Orchid Conference Tainan, 23-28 Feb 2024, World Orchid Show 24 Feb-10 Mar. A chance to enjoy Taiwan’s top class orchid breeding/growing, a show and conference. woctrust.org/the-next-woc--…

#Orchidaceae is a hyperdiverse family of spectacular beauty. Today, we published maps of phylogenetic & taxonomic measures of distinctiveness & rarity & identified locations & species in urgent need of #conservation. Paper led by @PatiVitt @SciReports: rdcu.be/daIbH

The March 2023 Newsletter is now available on the Orchid Specialist Group website. Thanks as always to Marilyn, the Editor, and to the contributors. orchidspecialistgroup.com/newsletters

Good news! Our article on #hybridization in #Orchis received enough downloads to be a #topdownloadedarticle in American Journal of Botany @Botanical_ #Orchids #Orchidaceae bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100…

An orchid appears in the #Doodle artwork on #Google today featuring spring flowers in celebration of #Nowruz 2023 - #Ophrys apifera is not a spring flower (at least not this far north!), but it's good to see #orchids included 😍. Happy Nowruz to those who celebrate! #Orchidaceae

@KewScience @CITES @kewgardens Keeper of the Herbarium @KewScience (1984-1995), Prof. Grenville Lucas, was one of the few botanists present and "exerted much influence on how the provisions on plants were drafted, noting the key differences from animals" in #CITES (linnean.org/news/2022/12/1…)

It's 50 years since #CITES came into being: see twitter.com/KewScience/sta…

@_JPhelps @marthonio_ - did you see this?

A piece about #IllegalWildlifeTrade (#IWT), #CITES etc.

7th International Orchid Workshop Challenges and Opportunities in Orchid Ecology and Conservation May 14-19 2023 Svachovka, Czech Republic orchid-workshop.cz Main topics: Models of orchid species distribution &population dynamics, Pollination, Mycorrhizas, Genetics, Taxonomy

Addressing legal and illegal wildlife trade requires a more detailed understanding of sub-national legislation. Here’s how you can do it for your species: bit.ly/3kvXbKl 4/5

We propose an approach for more thorough evaluations of sub-national legislation - Across areas of law - Hierarchical levels - Types of legislation We use the example of Nepal’s orchids, which are governed by over 55 legislation! Similar complexity likely faces other taxa. 3/5

CITES is important, but it is national legislation that informs species protection, harvest rules, bureaucratic roles, rights, etc... It ultimately shapes outcomes, but conservationists are often not very familiar with the laws governing the #species we most care about. 2/5

The @CITES Convention is turning 50! It governs international wildlife trade around the world and is the basis for many national laws. But, how are CITES commitments reflected in national laws to manage threatened biodiversity? A thread about my first lead author paper! 1/5

A great collaboration between @KewScience (Gargiulo, Viruel, Fay), @NOAAFisheries (Waples), @smithcollege (Grow), @UTokyo_News_en (Shefferson) and Estonian University of Life Sciences (Kull)

Effective population size in a partially clonal plant (#Cypripedium calceolus) is not predicted by the number of genetic individuals (Open Access) Gargiulo, Waples, Grow, Shefferson, Viruel, Fay & Kull onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…. #Orchids #Genetics #Conservation #Ne