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Colin Clubbe "Joseph Hooker's legacy in the UK Overseas Territories". Joseph Hooker bicentenary conference, RBG Kew.
- 1. Joseph Hooker’s Legacy in the UK Overseas Territories Colin Clubbe Conservation Science Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- 4. "No future botanist will probably ever visit the countries whither I am going, and that is a great attraction." J.D. Hooker’s letter to his father before the Erebus set sail
- 8. Kew’s UK Overseas Territories Programme
- 9. Mellissia begoniifolia St Helena Nassauvia serpens Falkland IslandsEpidendrum montserratense Montserrat Acacia anegadensis British Virgin Islands Pteris adscensionis Ascension Island Hohenbergia caymanensis Cayman Islands
- 10. King Penguins - Falkland Islands Montserrat’s ‘mountain chicken’ frog Nesting green turtle on Ascension St Helena’s tiny endemic blushing snail on the endemic Jellico St Helena’s endemic wire bird Cayman’s endemic blue iguana
- 11. Dwarf Shrub Heath - Falkland Islands Tropical Wet Forest - Montserrat Xerophytic Shrubland - Grand Cayman Cloud Forest - St Helena Caribbean Dry Forest British Virgin Islands
- 13. Ascension 1843: type specimen of Anogramma ascensionis collected by Joseph Hooker
- 15. 2010: Four small plants re-discovered on Green Mountain
- 18. 2010 2010: Down-listed from Extinct to Critically Endangered
- 20. Biological Teraforming “The consequences to the native vegetation of the peak will, I fear, be fatal and especially to the rich carpet of ferns that clothed the top of the mountain when I visited." Sir Joseph Hooker 1847-1850 Kew dispatched 300 plants to Ascension “mostly tress and shrubs calculated to bear exposure to the sea breezes and the most powerful winds” By end 1870s >5,000 trees from Kew and the Botanic Gardens in Cape Town were planted on Ascension
- 22. Ascension's Flora Today •249 wild species •13 considered native •7 endemic [plus 3 extinct endemics] •236 non native/ invasive •Non-natives cover @99% of vegetated areas
- 23. Biodiversity Action Plans • Developed and agreed in 2009 • Formalised in 2015 with individual Species Action Plans for each species
- 25. Tussac (Poa flabellate) Restoration
- 28. New Discoveries from the UKOTS Eragrostis episcopulus St Helena endemic (2013) Nassauvia falklandica Falkland Islands endemic (2012)
- 29. • Specimens geo-referenced • Baseline dataset to inform conservation © Phil Lambdon
- 31. Thank You