
National Tropical Botanical Garden
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The mission of the National Tropical Botanical Garden is to enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems, and cultural heritage.
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ICYMI: Hawaii Public Radio's Catherine Cruz interview with our Breadfruit Institute staff about the role of #breadfruit in community forests, food security, and its long history as a treasured crop in #Hawaii, the Pacific, and beyond. hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversati…



We spoke with environmental journalist and author Zoë Schlanger about her book The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. Read the interview on our NTBG Stories page: ntbg.org/stories/the-li…







Celebrate Earth Month, Native #Hawaiian Plant Month and the Year of Our Community Forests with #books about native plants and conservation. via HONOLULU Magazine #amreading about #plants honolulumagazine.com/conservation-b…


US Senate unanimously passed a resolution led by Senator Mazie Hirono designating April 2025 as National Native Plant Month to recognize the importance of native plants to environmental #conservation and restoration, and in supporting a #diversity of wildlife. kauainownews.com/2025/04/07/sen…

Well-timed for #EarthDay2025: a nice profile of one of our recent interns doing endangered plant conservation work in our seed laboratory and seedbank on #Kauai news.willamette.edu/library/2025/0… via Willamette University




Congratulations to CPC's 2025 Star Award winner - Dr. Dustin Wolkis, the Scientific Curator of Seed Conservation with National Tropical Botanical Garden (National Tropical Botanical Garden). 🔗 Watch Dustin's Star Award video & meet our past winners here: SavePlants.org/about-us/cpc-s… #SavePlantsFromExtinction
