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	 		<title>Red Listing the unique plants of the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs)</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:47:41 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/red-listing-ukots-plants.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Many of the unique plant species growing in the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are under threat.  Kew&rsquo;s Herbarium specimens provide important clues to help us identify those that are in greatest danger.<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/Working-Together-To-Protect-Ascensions-Unique-Plants.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Working together to cultivate and protect Ascension&#39;s unique plants</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/Working-Together-To-Protect-Ascensions-Unique-Plants.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Ascension Island, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is home to seven surviving unique plants, many of them threatened with extinction in the wild.  Marcella Corcoran reports on a horticultural training workshop for conservationists on the island.<br/>
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	 		<title>Restoring habitats in the Falkland Islands, one seed at a time</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:28:09 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/falklands-seeds-for-restoration.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Alicky Davey from Falklands Conservation and Tom Heller from Kew&rsquo;s Millennium Seed Bank explain how collecting wild plant seed can help restore eroded habitats and pastures in the Falkland Islands.<br/>
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	 		<title>First flowering at Kew for Critically Endangered Montserrat orchid</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:42:12 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/montserrat-orchid-flowers-at-kew.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Dust-like seeds of the orchid <em>Epidendrum montserratense,</em>  collected on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, have been germinated and cultivated in carefully controlled conditions at Kew,&nbsp;to produce the first flowers of this species to be seen in the UK.<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/plant-conservation-task-force.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Launching a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/plant-conservation-task-force.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[A major outcome of a one-week plant conservation workshop hosted by  the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag&uuml;ez, is the establishment of a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the US and British Virgin Islands. The overall goal of the Task Force is to protect and sustain the native plant diversity of the Puerto Rican Bank.<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/unexpected-photos-from-the-field.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Unexpected photos from the field</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:15:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/unexpected-photos-from-the-field.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Whilst studying herbarium specimens collected from the Caribbean Islands, UKOTs intern Alex Roberts was thrilled to discover photographs taken during a plant collecting expedition to Dominica in 1940, tucked away alongside the plant specimens they portray.<br /><br /><br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/virtual-herbarium-for-the-uk-overseas-territories.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Launching the UKOTs Online Herbarium</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/virtual-herbarium-for-the-uk-overseas-territories.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[We are bringing the unique and amazing plants that grow in the UKOTs, including those from the Caribbean, a little closer to you in celebration of International Day of Biological Diversity. Just a shame we can't bring the Caribbean weather too!<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/tracking-down-ukots-plants.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Investigating the plants of the Caribbean... on the outskirts of London!</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/tracking-down-ukots-plants.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Budden, one of Kew's volunteer interns, describes how information from preserved specimens of Caribbean plants helps to assess the conservation status of plants native to the Caribbean UK Overseas Territories.<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/falklands-unique-plants-in-safe-storage.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Falklands’ unique plants all in safe storage</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/falklands-unique-plants-in-safe-storage.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[All thirteen of the Falklands&rsquo; unique plant species are now being preserved at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank. Botanist Richard Lewis recently managed to track down seed-bearing plants of the silvery buttercup, the thirteenth species, in remote valleys on Weddell Island.<br/>
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	 		<title>A first flowering for Kew</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:45:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/first-flowering-of-metastelma.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[With the appearance of a tiny greenish-white flower, Kew&rsquo;s horticulturists have recorded the first flowering in cultivation of <em>Metastelma anegadense</em>, a plant found only on the low-lying island of Anegada in the Caribbean.<br/>
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	 		<title>Investigating the spread of an invasive tree in the Turks and Caicos Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/invasive-tree-excludes-tci-wildlife.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Alexandra Davey, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, spent two months in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), investigating the spread of an invasive tree, <em>Casuarina equisetifolia</em>, which threatens coastal habitats there.<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/joseph-hooker-and-the-ukots.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Sir Joseph Hooker and the UK Overseas Territories</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:15:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/joseph-hooker-and-the-ukots.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[On the 100th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest botanists of the Victorian era, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, find out about the unique plants that he encountered on his visits to the UKOTs and how this experience influenced his theories on plant distribution, which he later shared with Charles Darwin.<br/>
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	 		<title>Monitoring the effect of an invasive pine scale insect on the national tree of the Turks and Caicos Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/monitoring-threatened-pines-on-tci.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[While an introduced scale insect devastates the Caicos pine in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Sara Green, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, London investigated the impact that the insect is having on the tree&rsquo;s habitat and the effectiveness of different techniques of controlling this pest.<br/>
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	 		<title>Finding new plants on Montserrat</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/new-plants-from-montserrat.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[During a recent field trip to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, two members of Kew staff discovered plant species which had not previously been known to occur on the island.&nbsp;<br/>
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	 		<title>Collecting and growing native plants of the British Virgin Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/native-plants-for-bvi-garden.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Follow two members of Kew's UK Overseas Territories Team as they collect and propagate native plants for the islands' Botanic Garden.<br/>
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			<item><guid>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/cryopreserving-ascensions-ferns.htm</guid>
	 		<title>Freezing Ascension&#39;s rare ferns for the future</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/cryopreserving-ascensions-ferns.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Ed Jones has just spent a year working with Kew's Conservation Biotechnology team investigating different methods of conserving several of the threatened ferns unique to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.<br/>
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	 		<title>Seed conservation in the UK Overseas Territories</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/ukots-seed-conservation.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Find out about Kew's seed collecting activities in the UK Overseas Territories. Through their seed banking work, Kew&rsquo;s UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) team are helping to conserve plant life in many diverse and fragile habitats in these regions.<br/>
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	 		<title>Insects and invasives: investigating threats to Turks and Caicos Islands plants</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:07:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/tci-insects-and-invasives.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[The native plants of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) are under increasing threat from plants and animals that have been introduced to these Caribbean Islands in recent years.&nbsp; In an effort to understand the biology of the invasive species, a team of Kew botanists and conservationists spent three weeks studying them and investigating the problems they cause.<br/>
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	 		<title>Supporting the conservation of Bermuda&#39;s native plants</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/sandwich-students-ukots-research-at-kKew.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Using Kew's historic botanical specimens, Shayla Ellick has spent a undergraduate sandwich-placement year finding out about the 600 plant species found on the UK Overseas Territory(UKOT) of Bermuda.&nbsp; Combining digital high resolution images of the preserved plant specimens with information about the plants gathered from Kew's libraries and online botanical databases, she has added over 700 specimens to the UKOTs' Online Herbarium, to provide an invaluable conservation resource for the island.<br/>
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	 		<title>Restoring cleared minefields in the Falkland Islands</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/ukots/restoring-cleared-minefields-in-the-falkland-islands.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Restoring native vegetation on cleared minefield sites is just one of the many challenges facing conservationists in the Falkland Islands.<br/>
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