Drone work being done at the National Tropical Botanical Garden has been featured on Vice News in an article entitled
These Botanists Are Searching for Endangered Plants With Drones — Then Scaling Cliffs to Save Them
Adam Williams and Ben Nyberg are like the Indiana Joneses of plant conservation, leading the crusade to preserve Hawaii’s most distinct — and endangered — plants.
Hawaii’s biodiversity is unique, largely because of its isolation: Nearly 90% of native plants don’t grow anywhere else in the world, according to the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources. But that isolation has also left it vulnerable to threats like invasive species and environmental changes. So even though Hawaii makes up less than 1% of U.S. landmass, it’s now home to nearly 45% of all endangered and threatened plants in the U.S.
See the full article on Vice.com
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgyea/these-botanists-are-searching-for-endangered-plants-with-drones-then-scaling-cliffs-to-save-them