Tamil Nadu, with its rich flora spread across a unique combination of the Western and Eastern Ghats, is on a mission to save some of the rare, endangered and threatened plants, of which many are endemic to the State.
More than 30 taxonomists of premier institutions in the country carried out an assessment of threat to the State’s flora and came out with a list of 25 plants. Conservation strategies will be designed for these plants under the Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Conservation and Greening Project for Climate Change Response.
The taxonomists initially shortlisted 100 plants for the exercise. They conducted a conservation assessment management and prioritisation (CAMP) workshop in collaboration with the Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Coimbatore, and 25 rare, endangered and threatened endemic plants were chosen for conservation and restoration.
