In fact, Toronto Zoo has one of Canada’s largest tropical plant collections, right here in Scarborough. Experience acres of tropical plants throughout the bio-geographical pavilions, as well as the ...

The distributions of 308 varieties of plants and animals that are unique to Canada show that some ecological regions have a higher concentration of species found nowhere else in the world.

The Calgary tourist attraction and wedding hot spot won't open until next summer because the city doesn't want to risk fragile tropical plants in cold-weather conditions.

One hectare of land in a tropical forest can hold 650 tree species – more than in all of Canada and the continental US. This has left biologists baffled for decades. Now, with advances in data ...

A field survey in 2022 shows that the hairy braya, an endangered plant only known to grow in the N.W.T., has a bigger range than previously thought. A botanist says the population estimate has ...

Tropical plant species are as threatened by climate change as widely feared, study confirms Date: July 22, 2024 Source: Brown University Summary: Biologists who set out to better understand the ...

Kew plant taxonomist Martin Cheek describes two primary approaches to saving threatened plants: ex-situ conservation (the preservation of a species away from the habitat where it’s found), and ...