Road construction in Kerala threatened thousands of rare orchids growing on trees

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In an inspiring conservation effort, researchers successfully relocated more than 27,000 orchids from the threatened areas of Kerala's Western Ghats due to road expansion. This…

Many development projects across the world have, over the years, put the habitats of plants and wildlife at risk. But when researchers in Kerala were faced with the possibility of thousands of orchids losing the trees they called home to road-widening projects, they began asking a rather unusual question: could these plants be relocated to a new habitat? Would they continue to grow, flower and reproduce even after being moved somewhere new?

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