How Do We Protect Endangered Plants?

Today is going to be a real treat as I take you with me to see one of the rarest plants on Earth. To see this plant we have to go halfway up Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii, where the air is cool and dry. Up here is a little fenced in garden where we can see 'Ahinahina, the Hawaiian silversword. How do conservationist's protect plants like this one? sources [1] Carr, G. D. (2017). Hawaiian Silversword Alliance. Hawaiian Silversword Alliance, UH botany. Retrieved April 2, 2023, from http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/silversword.htm [2] Stroud, S., Fennell, M., Mitchley, J., Lydon, S., Peacock, J., & Bacon, K. L. (2022). The botanical education extinction and the fall of Plant Awareness. Ecology and Evolution, 12(7). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9019 [3] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1993. Recovery Plan for the Mauna Kea Silversword (Argvroxiphium sandwicense ssp. sandwicense). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, OR. 48 pp. [4] Heller, W. P., & Keith, L. M. (2018). Real-time PCR assays to detect and distinguish the rapid ʻŌhiʻa death pathogens ceratocystis lukuohia and C. huliohia. Phytopathology®, 108(12), 1395–1401. https://doi.org/10.1094/phyto-09-17-0311-r [5] Sperry, J. H., O’Hearn, D., Drake, D. R., Hruska, A. M., Case, S. B., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Arnett, C., Chambers, T., & Tarwater, C. E. (2021). Fruit and seed traits of native and invasive plant species in hawai‘i: Implications for seed dispersal by non-native birds. Biological Invasions, 23(6), 1819–1835. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02473-z 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Meet the Hawaiian Silversword 3:36 Herbivory 4:43 Disease 5:44 Loss of Seed Dispersers 6:43 Invasive Plants and More 7:21 How we Saved the Hawaiian Siversword 7:43 Cloning Endangered Plants 8:54 Lack of Plant Awareness Will Doom Us All 11:06 Fostering Plant Awareness 12:39 Outro I try to achieve the most well researched content I can, that said it is impossible to create content that is exhaustive on a given topic and therefore I implore you to investigate a given topic further. Welcome to Ecotasia! On this channel you can find wildlife footage and short documentaries on the natural world. I am an early career biologist who was inspired by the likes of the BBC Natural History unit, PBS, and Animal Planet as a child and then more recently by various nature YouTube channels to share my love for animals and nature. My goal is to document and highlight the interesting ecology and behavior of organisms I encounter, as well as cover and elucidate conservation and biological topics. Please Subscribe so you can join me to marvel and to learn twice a month. Underwater Worlds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAJNusnxcNoHUx_sNDYT92k Journey through the Undergrowth (Macro footage of insects and Arachnids) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZC-4h2hpK09I-FF563TQzlc Bird Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqNM9k7OoY&list=PLYx5OP7sbAZACa11LD1wDQhn0SI2-SV1f Birding Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAYjq78IuGJI4wc0GXDRHTd Conservation Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAIUm5UCl84q2KU2nI3YLpx #learning #plants #garden