Biological diversity

Conifers Garden pays special attention to the protection of rare conifer species. Of the world’s 615 conifer species, 211 or 34% are listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as being threatened. In addition to protection provided at the natural habitat we intend to contribute to the preservation of rare species by our activities. We are firm believers in the principle of conservation through cultivation. Although this is only ever the second best option, realistically many plants are so rare and their natural habitats so endangered that they are unlikely to survive on their own.

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“The IUCN Red List tells us where we ought to be concerned and where the urgent needs are to do something to prevent the despoliation of this world. It is a great agenda for the work of conservationists.”           / Sir David Attenborough /

"The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications."

                                                                                                                                                                                  Charles Darwin, 1859