Jacopo Calevo

by Benjamin Crain. In situ orchid conservation was a central theme throughout the 2026 Native Orchid Conference, which was held at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, and included several visits to native orchid sites throughout Door and Marinette Counties. The annual meeting was preceded by a workshop hosted by the Smithsonian’s North American Orchid Conservation Center on the assembly and deployment of camera traps designed to help identify orchid pollinators in the...

by Benjamin Crain. For the second year in a row, Orchid Conservation Chelsea won a gold medal on the world’s showiest floral stage — the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show, held from May 19th to the 23rd. This year’s iteration of the exhibit, which highlights global orchid conservation, was entitled Orchids of China — Beauty and Conservation. As such, the diverse team comprised new members from China, including researchers and orchid specialists from Shanghai Chenshan...

The scientific community is mourning the loss of Professor Pavel Kindlmann, a distinguished Czech ecologist, senior researcher, and one of the world's leading authorities on terrestrial orchids and biodiversity conservation. Throughout his career at the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague, Professor Kindlmann blended mathematical precision with field biology. He was a pioneer in using mathematical modeling to understand population...