Australian Orchid Foundation
Since 1976, the Australian Orchid Foundation has worked for orchid conservation, study, promotion, and education. Run by volunteers, it’s making tremendous progress to benefit native orchids. Australia is home to many fascinating and unusual species, like the Brilliant Sun Orchid, and also numerous varieties of Dendrobium, Pterostylis, and Sarcochilus. They all face threats from habitat destruction, climate change, and invasive plants and animals. To counter these dangers, the Australian Orchid Foundation funds research projects and runs a seed bank. They have an extensive list of publications for sale (note the prices are in Australian dollars.) You can support their work with an online donation (tax deductible in Australia.)
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July 14th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
This is really interesting. I think it is great that they are working to save native orchids down under. Thank you!!
July 19th, 2011 at 10:36 am
http://www.aboutorchids.com is super, bookmarked!
July 21st, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Nice color choice on the blog. It is really easy on my eyes and I have bad eyes too so that’s a really big compliment lol
August 5th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I was happy you pointed out this group which works toward the conversation of these beautiful flowers. 🙂
Thanks so much for your time. Keep up the quality posts
August 10th, 2011 at 7:57 am
Learning a ton from these neat articles.