Rescue Day for Carnivorous Plants

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/oct/07/100704951.html

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With bulldozers threatening small carnivores north of New Orleans, volunteers headed to the rescue Saturday.

There wasn't any chance that the targets might escape. The Nature Conservancy and nine volunteers from as far as Baton Rouge, 60 miles away, were out to rescue yellow pitcher plants, pencil-thin tube-shaped plants that use slippery wax and slick liquid to trap the flies, wasps and bees they digest.

The plants are threatened by a population boom in St. Tammany Parish and the disappearance of the woodlands they naturally grow in.

The parish was growing rapidly even before Hurricane Katrina, as its high ground and 850 square miles offered a spacious alternative to New Orleans' more crowded 250 square miles.

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[sce56]

1. You fooled me I thought it was a BUSH being rescued! By new war in Iran

Got Fascism Yet?

http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bush-nazilinkconfirmed.htm

[LeftCoast]

2. This is so sad. Carnivorous plants are true bell-weather's for the health

of the environment. Too often people just look at their habitat and think "worthless swamp - must drain". Pretty soon, between development and pollution there won't be very many places these incredible plants can grow in the wild.