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Courgenay

On the 7th of November 2011, the Swiss Orchid Foundation went a work trip with the gardeners apprenticeship of the Basel Vocational School. The work trip was under the direction of Andreas and Lukretia Wyss. In the biotope visited, there are about ten different species of orchids and over 100 different flowering plants.

Together with 25 students and advisors, within a day we have cleared about a hectare of preserved natural habitat from overgrowing bushes. Some students have worked with brushcutters. The other students have cleaned out with a slope overgrown with bushes using hand saws and loppers.

Orchid Calendar 2012

The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz is happy to announce a calendar about the native orchids of Switzerland. The calendar presents 13 unique photographs of different wild orchids in their natural environment.

The calendar can be ordered for CHF 55.- (shipping costs excluded) directly on the website or for CHF 58.- in the book store Bider & Tanner, Aeschenvorstadt 2, 4051 Basel, Switzerland.

For more informations, please visit: http://www.orchideen-kalender.ch

Support "Comité de Défense du Poumon Vert"

In the city center of Saint-Louis (Dpt. Haut-Rhin, Alsace) one of the last public green spaces (almost 1.5 soccer pitch) is planed to be overbuilt. Please support the petition on the website of the committee.

More about it in this PDF and via the following hyperlinks:

http://comite.poumonvert.free.fr
or via www.facebook.com

We thank you for your help!

Renziana

The Swiss Orchid Foundation, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary, proudly announces the publication of its new journal, Renziana, published by the Reinhardt Verlag Basel. The journal is bilingual (English and German) and will be published annually, with each issue dedicated to a particular orchid topic. At around 100 pages, and including 202 colour images, the first issue is devoted to the genus Paphiopedilum (slipper orchids). All contributors are internationally renowned experts on the genus.

The journal may be ordered by phone from Reinhardt Media Service Tel.+41 (0) 61 264 64 50; by e-mail: media@reinhardt.ch; or in the booktrade ISSN: 2235-0799. The price per issue is SFr. 12.-/€ 12.- (+posting fees).

Review:
German - English - French - Dutch - Spanish - Portuguese

Cypripedium journal

The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz published a magazine about the lady's slipper (Cypripedium calceolus) and its close relatives. The Journal is available at newspaper kiosks and at the well sorted bookstores for 10.- chf.

THE VU Hortus is threathend by closure

The Botanical Garden of the Free University in Amsterdam is likely to suffer under the expansion of the VUmc hospital and will maybe be closed to give way to new buildings. To prevent this and to show the importance of this garden and its about 6500 plants to the authorities, we ask you to write a letter containing your comments to:

info@hortus.vu.nl

We hope that the garden may remain open also in the future. Thank you for your commitment.

Stanhopea book

"The Stanhopea Book" is now available.
Hard-bound with 496 pages and with more than 850 illustrations. Price (without transportation and package) is 175.-- US$. If you are interested, send your order together with your postal address to RJOrchid@gmx.ch.

Slides of J.B.Comber

Currently we are at the scanning and recording of about 10'000 slides of Jim Comber. He has lived and worked several years in Indonesia and Southeast Asia and made a lot of photographs of native species.

Link with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

After years of negotiations, the website of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England finally refers to our database. A link to our homepage will be found during an orchid search on the World Checklist (our taxonomy follows Kew) under "Further information" - "Images" - "World Orchid Iconography / BibliOrchidea" a link to view the accompanying pictures on our website. To see an example, click here.

Link with the "Musée national d'Histoire naturelle", Paris

We are linked also with the Musée national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, the National Museum of natural History. You can find an example here.