Georgy coming towards a Tulipa korolkowii in full bloom in Batken, Kyrgyzstan. In October 2018, I started a PhD on tulip taxonomy and conservation at the University of Cambridge with a question that sounds simple and turns out to be anything but: what actually is a tulip species? Depending on whose classification you followed, there … Continue reading Chasing Tulips Across the World: An Eight-Year Journey from Mountains to Publication
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How Can the Green Status of Species Help Inform the Conservation of Wild Tulips
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
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 