Nepenthes bokorensis 2011 conservation update

I will probably post a lot of pictures and comments on my 2011 Indochinese trip. It will mainly be basic field travel notes as I already told that I will write several scientific papers as a follow up to my observations.

However, I intend, in this blog, to provide a full conservation update on Nepenthes bokorensis as some of you well know that it is a species that I especially hold dear, not only because I'm of Cambodian origin but because it is the first Nepenthes species that I described as a taxonomist, and most of all because this species is endemic to one Cambodian mountain.

I spent 2 days on Mount Bokor last week with Dr Alastair Robinson and what we saw on Phnom Bokor (Mount Bokor) was both magnificent and depressing. We witnessed the destruction of sheer natural and unique beauty and felt the power of money and the vulnerability of Nature. The aim of the following posts will not only be to post photos- what would anyway be the point to show a gallery of heartbreaking pictures of "development" in process?- but to explain to you the results of our observations -what we saw- and what we intend to do after.

The purpose of our trip on Bokor was to make an assessement of the status of Nepenthes bokorensis (and other carnivorous plants species as well) in order to act and to make a proposal to protect it. What I will do in the following months.

I am not naive; I know that what we will be able to do will be very limited. I shall talk about that in time but not now, not on a public blog.

I will post the following threads:
-the status of the roadside population of Nepenthes bokorensis from which all cultivated plants derive. From now on, I will refer to that roadside population as "Location A";
-the discovery of a second large population, "Location B";

-the discovery of a third large population, "Location C";

-the ongoing works on Phnom Bokor;

-the Bokor City project.

Each threads will be completed by numerous pictures and also some videos.

After that, I will also show you several posts on the other carnivorous plants of Phnom Bokor (loads of Utricularia and two species of Drosera, including a stunning population of Drosera peltata).