Colombia: Conservationists Attempt to Save Colombia’s Magnolia Tree from Extinction

Jul 24, 2017 | Ann Bush, City Paper
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the Magnolia Guatapensis on their Red List as a “critically endangered. As the world’s authority on the conservation status of biological species, the IUCN added the Colombian magnolia in 1998, and since then, the devastation to this species continues. But SalvaMontes Colombia Corporation, a non-profit alliance whose mission is conservation, protection and improvement of the environment in Colombia, has concentrated its first efforts on documenting the number of Almanegra trees and purchasing land where the largest patches of trees still exist.