LIFE IP AZORES NATURA successfully carries out propagation trials

March 2, 2022

The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change continues to take significant steps on nature conservation, producing sprouts of the native species 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴.

This species belongs to the pteridophyte group (seedless vascular plants) and was germinated through spores collected from the specimens present at the Faial Botanic Garden.

It all started on the Azores Seed Bank with propagation trails of this species that took 11 months to germinate, but it was the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA who boosted this project through the conservation action C3 – Implementation of pilot studies for the conservation of endemic flora.

The next phase will be planting this fern on the LIFE IP AZORES NATURA's intervention areas, since most populations of 𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴 are outside the Natura 2000 network areas, which raises some problems in the conservation strategy of the species.

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