Plant Perils
On a remote mountain slope near Rio De Janeiro,Brazil, lives the last remaining population of a primitive Amaryllis. The area burned shortly after this photograph was taken, jeopardizing the species. First place in the General Division/Science-Natural History Category.
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Scooterbug..thats a rare worsleya amaryllis..the true blue flowered one.Didn't know there was such a small population left in the wild. I grew this one once..doesn't grow well in captivity. :-)
It's not just amaryillis that we are loosing! At the rate it's going the entire Amazon rainforest will be history before we know it. Rare plants, rare wildlife, and indeginous tribes are being pushed out at incredible rate. Oil companies go in to explore for oil... building roads. Then the illegal loggers have access deeper into the jungle to log... and then the colonist follow to clear land for farming. And then there are the gold and diamond miners that do their share of destruction.
Nothing can top the damage the oil companies have done. It's very sad.
