Protecting what remains
Conserving these wild, wondrous plants—even in the face of multiple threats—is why the botanists were collecting sundew seeds to begin with. The seeds, which will be stored in a seed bank in California, are an insurance policy for the future of the state’s sundew population.
Habitat loss is a persistent threat closing in on carnivorous plants. Bogs are often drained to make way for development, knocking out everything that once lived there. It’s important to preserve as much as we can of what’s left, but it’s also important to have a back-up.
