ACTG conducts tree genomic research to understand and conserve biological diversity using the latest advances, workshops and field-based assessments.
Selangor, Malaysia
Joined May 2019
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We have moved! Come join us on in our new place 🦋bsky.app/profile/actgenomics…
Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics retweeted
>1500 scientists from >100 countries agreeing in something is a very rare event. In this opinion piece we joined together to express that if biological nomenclature is not understood as a neutral tool, we put ourselves at risk . Let me explain why we had to organize this 🧵👇
Investigadores españoles lideran la defensa de una nomenclatura biológica universal frente a revisiones de carácter moral. Sostienen que la pretensión de imponer revisiones de carácter ético comprometería la comunicación entre culturas y generaciones rjb.csic.es/investigadores-e…
ALT De izquierda a derecha y de arriba abajo, los 20 coautores principales de este trabajo: Pedro Jiménez-Mejías (España), Saúl Manzano (España), Vinita Gowda (India), Frank-Thorsten Krell (EEUU), Mei-Ying Lin (EEUU), Santiago Martín-Bravo (España), Laura Martín-Torrijos (España), Gonzalo Nieto Feliner (España), Sergei L. Mosyakin (Ucrania), Robert F.C. Naczi (EEUU), Carmen Acedo (España), Inés Álvarez (España), Jorge V. Crisci (Argentina), Modesto Luceño Garcés (España), John Manning (Sudáfrica), Juan Carlos Moreno Saiz (España), A. Muthama Muasya (Sudáfrica, originario de Kenia), Ricarda Riina (España, originaria de Venezuela), Andrea Sánchez Meseguer (España) y Daniel Sánchez-Mata (EEUU, originario de España).
Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics retweeted
Last week the latest update of the @IUCNRedList was published including over 4,000 new assessments for tree species! This brings the total number of trees on the IUCN Red List to 45,395!
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Further to our earlier post (news.mongabay.com/2023/12/ne…), recently described Tapanuli orangutan and its habitat are already severely threatened, as are conservationists aiming to halt dam development within the shrinking forest of North Sumatra news.mongabay.com/2019/12/fi… @mongabay
ACTG's New Year's resolution for #2024: more #funding towards #plant #dna #genomics, #taxonomy and #conservation #research of Asia's #threatened #flora. Happy New Year🌺! 🎉 @bgci @UGent_Botany @DHinsinger @GTA_GTSG @IntlOakSociety @IUCNssc @NatGeo @JChVie
Great interview with Try Surya on our newest Stone Oak (#Lithocarpus) species from #Sumatra news.mongabay.com/2023/12/ne… #Fagaceae #conservation @GTA_GTSG @IUCNRedList @bgci asianfagaceae.com/lithocarpu…
Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics retweeted
Reaching 40,000 trees on the @IUCNRL would not have been possible without the hard work of all our Global Tree Assessment assessors, reviewers and contributors. A big thank you to everyone who has helped!
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Excited to share with the world the newest addition to the Asian Stone Oaks: #Lithocarpus tapanuliensis (#Fagaceae) 🌳 Paper here: phytokeys.pensoft.net/articl… includes #endangered 🐵🐵🐵! No, that's not a typo! More on asianfagaceae.com/lithocarpu… @bgci @GTA_GTSG @FaunaFloraInt @trcrc_org
Excited to join @bgci and @MortonArboretum in #teaching #tree #conservation #workshops in Chiang Mai and Hanoi! Look forward to meet existing/new collaborators and join forces to protect and study Asia's amazing #biodiversity 💚🌳! #redlisting #gapanalyses actg.science
Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics retweeted
Released today The Red List of Timber Trees finds 1/3 of the world’s timber tree species are threatened with extinction. To read the full report follow the link below:
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Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics retweeted
There is a need for greater conservation action for timber trees, with only 46% of threatened species found in ex situ collections. Case studies in #RedListofTimberTrees show what @BGCI gardens are already doing to help.
Visiting beautiful Rimba Ilmu gardens and herbarium at @uni_malaya : collection work for the new #FloraMalesiana and #FloraPeninsularMalaysia #Fagaceae treatments. Many thanks to Dr Yong Kien-Thai and garden staff for their kind welcome and support.🌰🌳💚 rimba.um.edu.my/herbarium.ph…
And while we are at it... ⛔️maybe this is not a good idea either? Integrated science falls apart if you break up specialists, research collections, libraries, laboratories and living collections! 🤝🌳🦊🦠🧬📔🖥️ Please support: change.org/p/sauvons-les-col… #Biodiversity #Science
Kickoff time for the new Flora of Peninsular Malaysia #Fagaceae project @FRIMKepong. 🌰🌳 #FloraPenMal #Biodiversity #Conservation #Genomics #Taxonomy asianfagaceae.com/ @BGCI @GTA_GTSG
Keep the Kew Herbarium at @Kew! Please share further, and consider signing the petition here: chng.it/nfDmmdtGjp 💪🌳💚 #Biodiversity #Botany #Science #Conservation #stopmuckingabout
Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics retweeted
VicForests caught red-handed once again. We worked w/ @WOTCHinc to expose illegal logging of Tree Geebung in areas meant to be protected, during 'regeneration' works. More proof VicForests can't be trusted & must be wound up ASAP.
#AbolishVicForests
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As a follow-up of our previous post and recent visit - now on #Taiwan's evening news: #Taitung's world-class primary #Fagaceae forests are being cleared - #conservation groups call for urgent halt｜20230523 PTS News youtube.com/watch?v=tIASti4N… @bgci @oak @FaunaFloraInt #biodiversity
⭐️Updated our activities overview and added a trip report on the International #Conservation #Symposium 2023 attended last March in Fagaceous 🌳🌰#Taiwan #EcologicalSocietyTaiwan @IntlOakSociety @BGCI #GCCO #Fagaceae #Quercus #Lithocarpus #Castanopsis actg.science/workshops-and-f…