BOTA-AZH projects

AZH 2017 Conservation Grant Application

Title of Project: NeoTropical/MesoAmerican: Bamboo Mexico

Supervisor: Danielo Ramos, Zoological Society of San Diego, Horticulturist

Mission: A program to collect and to export eight endemic Mexican woody bamboo species to the San Diego Zoo. The main idea is to do ex-situ conservation of those native and endemic woody bamboo species. The species will be: display for educational purposes for the visitors and as well as preserving those bamboo species. Propagation of imports to preserve species , new introductions and new taxa discoveries that will enhance the SDZG Bamboo collections in addition to distributions through networking affiliates . Benchmarking efforts also apply.

Goals: Making field work collections for living specimens and for herbaria. The living specimens will be sent to the San Diego Zoo for ex situ conservation, leaving duplicates for the Francisco Javier Clavijero Botanical Garden at the Instituto de Ecología, in Xalapa Veracruz and other duplicate for the Botanic Garden of the Instituto de Botánica of the University of Guadalajara.

Working in a scientific manuscript about the conservation status of those eight species to propose them for the Red List of the IUCN.

Working in two diffusion articles for the general audience.