Ep. 11: This Island Earth

Ben interviews Dustin Wolkis of the Juliet Rice Wichman Botanical Research Center and the National Tropical Botanical Garden about Hawai'ian native plants, preserving a seed bank, and the tragedies and triumphs of working against extinction.

Dustin mentioned a bunch of cool people and programs throughout the interview. Here are some links if you’re curious to learn more about them:

Seeds of Success, the national native seed collecting program run by the US Bureau of Land Management:

The Millenium Seed Bank at the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens

Seed heroes Carol Baskin, Jerry Baskin, Fiona Hay, and Christina Walters

The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

Laukahi’s Hawai’i Strategy for Plant Conservation

The Smithsonian’s Flora of Hawai’i

The Bishop Museum’s Plants of Hawai’i

Plant Extinction Prevention Program (PEPP)