Native Plant Conservation

Number: 1980-18

 

WHEREAS, plant collecting has greatly reduced certain native plant populations such as ginseng, lady slippers, other orchids, Venus fly-trap, various pitcher plants and other carnivorous plants; and

WHEREAS, the great majority of these wild dug plants do not survive transplanting; and

WHEREAS, effective propagation techniques are being developed for native plants by groups such as the North Carolina Botanical Gardens at Chapel Hill; and

WHEREAS, the results of propagation research are being made available to nurserymen; and

WHEREAS, propagation rather than exploitation of rare plant populations is important to conserve the wild resource;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 20-23, 1980, in Miami Beach, Fla., hereby recognizes that it is in the best interest of natural resource conservation that propagation rather than continual wild collecting of uncommon plants be practiced.