John Kress
John Kress, now an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and one of the authors of the new study, discovering a new species of Heliconia in Venezuela.
“Now that we know the conservation status of every one of the 187 species of Heliconia, we can construct a coherent plan of how to protect them,” Kress said. “That does give me a tidbit of hope.”
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