Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 7, 1 Iulai 1987 — Grant Awarded for Plant Species Study [ARTICLE]

Grant Awarded for Plant Species Study

The Bishop Museum has been awarded a grant of $16,665 from the National Science Foundation to begin a project of identifying endangered and threatened spvecies of plants in the Philippines. Dr. S.H. Sohmer, chairman of the Department of Botany at Bishop Museum and the pnneipal investigator for the Philippines project, will be the director. In announcing the grant award, Dr. Sohmer said the funds will enable Dr. Domingo Madulid, a botanist at the Philippine National Museum, to spend three months in residence at the Bishop Museum this fall to study the techniques developed here for producing an inventory list of endangered plant species. Sohmer said these techniques are easily translatable to the situation in the Philippines. The Bishop Museum project will enable the Philippines to enlarge its contribution to the global effort to identify and list the endangered plant species of the earth. These lists are extremely important as they form the basis of governmental action wheih ean lead to formal conservation programs and projects.