Rewilding the World

Botanists from Bonn, Germany, collected the last specimen of today’s Endangered All-Star from the muddy bank of a hot springs in Rwanda. The plant has not been seen in the wild since its spring disappeared two years ago, the water drained for agriculture. But propagating the plant turned out to be fiendishly difficult  Read More 

You can’t get more endangered than Today’s All-Star. A modest shrub of the coffee family, Café Marron was reduced to a single wild individual on the island of Rodrigues, part of the Mascarene Islands and a dependency of the nation of Mauritius. In 1980, a student sent out on an assignment to gather  Read More