Wild tulips in Central Asia have become rare, expert says
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https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/wild-tulips-in-central-asia-have-become-rare-expert-says/
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More than half of the world’s wild tulip species assessed so far are threatened with extinction, reports Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta. “For a flower this famous, it may surprise people how rare its wild relatives have become,” Brett Wilson, co-founder of the Wild Tulip Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global nature conservation authority, told Mongabay […]
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