Team Schiedea (How to save a species from going EXTINCT) | Plants are Cool, Too

Highlighting one of the coolest and most ambitious projects in the history of rare species conservation, this episode ("Team Schiedea") takes us to Kaua'i, Hawai'i, where a group of passionate plant people are working to save some of the rarest plants on the archipelago -- and tell us why we need a new generation of biodiversity lovers to help battle the extinction crisis.

Selected for inclusion in the 2022 Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival.

[Episode shot in 2019.]

‪@PlantsAreCoolToo‬

Teaching topics: extinction, biodiversity conservation, rare species, conservation jobs, invasive species, island evolution, Hawaiian biodiversity

Host/Producer/Writer: Chris Martine @MartineBotany
Producer/Videographer/Editor/Graphics: Paul Frederick
Field Producer: Tim Kramer
Drone footage: Tobias Koehler

Scientists featured: Ann Sakai, Stephen Weller, Steve Perlman, Lauren Weisenberger, Alex Loomis, John Powers, Warren Wagner, Mike Moore, Krissa Skogen, Norm Wickett, Ava Adler

With photos by: Ken Wood, Alex Loomis, Stephen Weller, Ann Sakai

Institutional affiliations: University of California, Irvine; Plant Extinction Prevention Program; National Tropical Botanical Garden; US Fish and Wildlife Service; Duke University; Chicago Botanic Garden; Oberlin College; Bucknell University; Smithsonian Institute

Funding: National Science Foundation

More on Ann Sakai and Stephen Weller's research: https://sakaiweller.bio.uci.edu/

More on Steve Perlman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_...

Plant Extinction Prevention Program: http://www.pepphi.org/