{"id":787446,"date":"2026-09-30T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787446\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:04:08","slug":"how-some-of-uks-rarest-trees-are-being-saved-by-cliff-climbing-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787446\/","title":{"rendered":"How some of UK&#8217;s rarest trees are being saved by cliff-climbing pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson is among numerous conservationists who are collecting seeds from the trees to take back to Westonbirt&#8217;s botanic gardens as a &#8220;back up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is part of a wider effort to prevent the loss of the threatened sorbus species &#8211; which also includes rowans and service trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are no banked seeds, and no trees growing in gardens,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We really want to make sure we&#8217;ve got a good back up of that material in conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ideally we&#8217;ll keep this population healthy and thriving, but it&#8217;s always good to have material in botanic collection just in case anything happens and we can potentially re-introduce them in the future. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s to keep them safe going into the future with all the unknown threats that could come our way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson is among numerous conservationists who are collecting seeds from the trees to take back to Westonbirt&#8217;s botanic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}