An online registry for Plant Reintroduction projects The Center for Plant Conservation has designed and will maintain an online registry and survey of imperiled plant reintroduction projects (using the word inclusively to encompass population augmentation, reintroduction, introduction or translocation). This searchable registry is designed to facilitate sharing of information and communication among workers in this area of restoration science, by recording project information, old or new, successful or disappointing, around the world.
We invite your participation in the registry. Adding information about your reintroduction trials will contribute to a metadata set that will be analyzed for an upcoming international CPC 2009 Symposium. To make it as useful as possible, we seek data on plants with diverse life histories reintroduced into diverse locations and under a variety of circumstances using a variety of techniques. Our goal is to generate a meaningful review of reintroductions, their successes and failures, promises and deliveries. It is our intention that understanding these patterns can contribute to plant conservation efforts around the world. The more participation we have, the better conclusions we can make. You may gain access to the registry through http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/reintroduction/MN_reintroductione ntrance.asp. Please obtain a username and password by contacting [email protected]. The information collection screens allow for the entry of relatively detailed information, which will be placed in a database and archived, but note that only a summary of the project will appear in the online registry. View the registry project summaries at: http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/reintroduction/viewreintroduction list.asp. Additional information will be available by request, as approved for sharing by the project registrant(s). Please note that we will not publish or display on the website any sensitive information about these plants (such as traceable location information). Your project will be listed in the format shown, additional data shared with your permission, and a link back to your own home website will be provided if you wish. Participation is voluntary and will not supplant any other publications you may plan for your work. The registry entry screens include a box to check at the end of the survey to indicate your interest in collaborating.
