Ongoing – A new version of the Red Book of Uzbekistan is in production that includes a range of tulip species.
March-April 2026 – A small Green Status of Species display about wild tulips was up in the alpine house of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden (https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/wild-recovery-revealing-the-green-status-of-our-species-tulips/).
March 2026 – The IUCN SSC Wild Tulip Specialist Group and tulip community managed to get Tulipa anadroma third place in the Uproar Challenge run by Indianapolis zoo this year (www.uproarchallenge.com). For getting this far the specialist group will receive $3000 for the conservation of this species.
10/10/2025 – In the October update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species three new Green Status of Species Assessments for tulips were published. These showed that Tulipa greigii, T. kaufmannina, and T. fosteriana, which are key ancestors of cultivated tulips, are considered largely depleted based on their ancestral range.
IUCN SSC Wild Tulip Specialist Group 