To save an endangered tree, put it up for sale. And whatever you do, don’t tell anyone where it is. That’s how an Australian consortium is protecting the Wollemi pine tree, a rare species that dates ...

Neither too hot nor too cold, an area of rugged terrain has provided ideal conditions for a specific plant family for more ...

Two rare trees with ties to colonial-era Philadelphia soon will grace the steps to Carpenters' Hall in Old City. The 6-foot-tall Franklinia Alatamaha trees, better known as Franklin trees, will be ...

People in a village have come together to plant a range of rare heritage apple trees. A community orchard has been created in Barford St Martin, Wiltshire, where ancient varieties such as Bedwyn ...

SOCOTRA, Yemen -- On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is ...

Rare white-letter hairstreak butterflies have been spotted after volunteers planted elm trees.

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A conservation charity has planted elm trees, which are the preferred habitat of the white-letter hairstreak butterfly [Butterfly ...