what a rare sighting and thanks for sharing what an important comment about ecology and saving the wild populations
and what you said about the survival of this and many other small populations' survival is a poignant story... both for our destructive over usage and insensitivity of the wildcrafters and men who pay the wildcrafters who pick plants roots and all with only their pockets 's without any thoughts for future of the species or for the next generation. Usha di On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:46 AM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > *Arenaria curvifolia* Majumdar (Caryophyllaceae) was rediscovered after > 121 years by us in 2006. Nine years later one of my research students Mr > Satish Chandra Semwal once again reached to that spot, 21 kms from nearest > roadhead, and photographed this species. > > These recent pics are shared in only eFI in the webworld. > > Though restricted to a small population, the species seems thriving well > in the area. Thanks to our ancestors who didn’t find any economic > importance of this species; otherwise it may had disappeared from its only > known location leading to extinction of species! > DSRawat Pantnagar > Dr D.S.Rawat > Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & > Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
