Tubers in Trouble

[rangerrebew]

Tubers in trouble
December 5, 2017
 
Credit: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Extinction by its very nature is irreversible. Once a species is extinct, it's too late for conservation practitioners to act. So, for us working on the front line of plant conservation, instead of just questioning whether a species is extinct, we need to look at the risk of extinction. Using assessments of extinction risk, we can uncover trends that help us to target the conservation resources we have available towards those species that need it most. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is one of the most well recognised lists that documents the extinction risk of species.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-tubers.html#jCp

[Smokin Joe]

If these tubers grow much like potatoes, just start people planting a portion of the tuber when they harvest the wild ones to keep them going.

[Joe Wooten]

If these tubers grow much like potatoes, just start people planting a portion of the tuber when they harvest the wild ones to keep them going.

You obviously do not understand the process here! These tubers need an expensive government funded program that gives the bureaucrats an excuse to spend most of their funding attending wild yam preservation conferences in Tahiti, Davo, Honolulu, and Monaco.

[dfwgator]

"It's not a tub-ah!"