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What are conservation centers? Repositories that maintain accurately identified, documented, and labeled living collections of the 8 families of Zingiberales Usually botanical gardens, either privately owned or governmental, or growers & farmers All voluntary participants Receive no direct funding from HSI Currently 11 official CCs worldwide
Why are they important? Destruction of the world’s tropical vegetation continues at alarming rates Species are being lost before we even have a chance to name and catalog them Conservation Centers can play an important role in saving species ex situ Each Center has unique growing conditions and species it conserves
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