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Conservation

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The Hilo Orchid Society has a commitment to protecting the environment.  Tropical rain forest, the native habitat of most orchids, is being destroyed at an alarming rate, resulting in the disappearance of the animals, birds, insects, and plants, including orchids, that live there.  To combat this, the Hilo Orchid Society supports orchid conversation projects.  In 2020, HOS donated to support two projects:

We donated $500 to support the Writhlington Orchid Project conducted by Simon Pugh-Jones and students at the Writhlington School and Mendip School in Great Britain, and Tengku Auvaroza Tengku Abraham of the Sarawak Orchid Society.  The project aims to develop orchid conservation and education in Sarawak, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, by linking local schools in Sarawak with the Writhlington and Mendip schools, including creation of an orchid propagation lab at a school in Sarawak.  Only by getting local people involved can orchid conservation succeed.  Click here for more info on this project.

​We donated $500 to support the Orchid Recovery Program at Illinois College for the conservation of Hawaiian native orchids.  Hawaii has only three native orchids (see photos above).  All the orchids you see have been brought here.  The native orchids are rare, inconspicuous, and grow in in upland areas where humans don't travel.  Under the direction of Lawrence Zettler, students are propagating seeds of the extremely rare Peristyles holochila, (previously called Platanthera holochila, left photo) of which only 33 plants exist in the wild.  They are also propagating the less threatened but still rare Liparis hawaiiensis (center photo).  We are proud to be able to support the conservation of orchids right here in Hawaii.
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