After a year in post, Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s Expedition Botanist, Matthew Jeffery, talks about his role and what botanic gardens can do to protect and conserve the world’s most endangered plant species.
“Discovering new plants on expeditions these days is increasingly rare,” says Jeffery. “A lot of the plant species we visit are already vulnerable. We take cuttings and seeds of species we don’t have in our Cambridge collection, and species that may be endangered, to help inform conservation and support restoration work.”
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