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Series exploring the complex interface between a growing human population and wildlife

Monty Don presents a series exploring the complex interface between a growing human population and wildlife

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03/06/2014

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In the first of a new series, Monty Don asks whether we should keep conservation secrets.

Monty Don begins a new series by asking if it is possible or desirable to keep conservation secrets. Rare orchids and rhinos illustrate the conundrums conservationists face.

Monty Don explores the difficulties in keeping secrets and the effects of secrecy on rare orchids and rhinos. For the lady's slipper orchid in England, reduced to a single plant, secrecy was considered the only solution for many years, but when collectors discovered its site, conservation strategy changed. Rhinos, like other creatures with a price on their heads are very vulnerable and even in the 21st century; secrecy still plays a part in their conservation.

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