When you think of tulips, chances are you picture vibrant spring gardens or the iconic striped fields of the Netherlands. However, behind these cultivated tulips lies a wilder story — one of resilience, diversity, and survival. In remote mountains, steppe, grasslands, and semi-deserts the wild ancestors that enabled the creation of horticultural tulips reside. Understanding … Continue reading How can the Green Status of Species Help Inform the Conservation of Wild Tulips
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A code red for Humanity… but the impacts of climate change also threaten the future of wild tulips
Wild tulips are threatened by many localised activities such as livestock overgrazing, mining, urbanisation, and opportunistic collection of flowers and bulbs. These are currently damaging specific populations and causing numbers of individuals to decline. Yet what if there was a threat that occurred across the whole distribution of tulips? What if there was something that … Continue reading A code red for Humanity… but the impacts of climate change also threaten the future of wild tulips
IUCN SSC Wild Tulip Specialist Group 