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DECR’s Collaborative Fieldwork with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Continues
#TurksandCaicos, November 29, 2022 – DECR welcomes Marcella Corcoran and Amy Barker of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew UK Overseas Territories team for three weeks of fieldwork on assessing endemic and near-endemic
From 20 November through 11 December 2022, the team will be focusing on various plant habitats across TCI. On 22 November 2022, the team was shown the importance of the most common “bush” as they assessed seven endemic and near-endemic species of plants on a roadside in Blue Hills near the Phase Two community.
If you see the DECR and RBG Kew team out and around on Providenciales, Grand Turk, Salt Cay, North and Middle Caicos, or other islands, feel free to say hello and get to know our expert partners and meet some of TCI’s amazing 500+ native plant species.
Photo caption: Marcella Corcoran of RBG Kew and Dodly Prosper of DECR assess Millspaugh’s wild sisal Agave millspaughii in Blue Hills, Providenciales.