The Role of ex-situ Breeding and Tissue Culture in the Conservation of Carnivorous Plants
Robert Cantley is an engineer and physicist by profession, but has worked with Nepenthes all his adult life and has founded three companies propagating Nepenthes between 1981 and the present day. He is Managing Director and founder of Borneo Exotics, which is a Sri Lankan-based tissue culture laboratory and nursery incorporated in 1997 and employing 75 people. Borneo Exotics specialises in the breeding and production of new Nepenthes hybrids, with over 2,500 created to date. Robert also has a lifelong passion for species conservation and currently co-chairs the ICPS Carnivorous Plant Specialist Group under the patronage of Sir David Attenborough. The group assesses the conservation status all species of carnivorous plants for the IUCN Red List.
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