Thanks to the seeds and pollen grains recovered by Perlman, its pretty flowers now grace every corner of the garden, and might one day be replanted in the wild. In the meantime, though, they race to find other plants hidden amid the veils of near extinction, and to give them back their place in nature. As Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich once noted, losing a species is like snapping rivets on a plane's wing. One can crack many rivets and the plane might not go down. R Y Saving Hawaii's endangered plants can mean clambering into pristine corners of the islands.
Statistics say that each week one plant species disappears from Earth.
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