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ZI
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of HEAVEN
... and beyond
Nature Products. Network
TianZi Biodiversity Research & Development Centre
Yunnan, China
&
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Our
projects contribute
to
biodiversity
protection and fair trade
in the upper Mekong Region.
We grow your plans and plants, and we make
you part of urgent environmental development - with a yearly return
Projects:
Rainforestation Farming for organic certification
visit our TianZi BioidversiTea Resort
become CO2 neutral, protect biodiversity, and receive tea in return:
join our Biodiversi-Tea membership
Banzhang old tea trees forest
Mohan ecological investment
The orchid recovery project
Rene's wild mangoe protection
our traceability concept
and what we make from biodiversity:
essential oils
forest tea
herbal treatments
The
Orchid recovery project
is a joint effort between TianZi, French, and Swiss scientists and companies
for the protection of orchids in their natural habitats.
Orchids in the Golden Triangle region between North Thailand, Myanmar,
Laos, and Yunnan of China are under severe pressure from the fast expansion
of rubber and tea plantations and from wild collection for Chinese medicine
production. The project is making an assessment of the existing orchid
flora and establishing a mother plant collection in a 6 square kilometer
protected site under the care of TianZi. Research on pollinating insects,
vegetation analysis, and on potentials for sustainable orchid production
and trade is ongoing.
The following are pictures of some of the species found in the area.
Not all tree barks are suitabe for the establishment of orchids. This
bark of a local Fagaceae, however, is perfect. The seeds of this Eria
amica found their symbiotic fungus obviously in the crevices of
the oak tree.
High up in old trees Vanda coerulea is exposed to full sunshine.
These old mother plants fall with the decay of the trees and can easy
be re-established on younger trees.
One of the smallest dwarf Dendrobiums with a gorgeous flower is Dendrobium
christyanum. It flowers in June. Its compact stems are usually
not harmed by the frequent grass fires.
A beautiful ground orchid with potatoe like tubers, which also escape
grass fires, is Eulophia spectabilis. Its leaves and flowers
appear after the first strong rains in June.
This epiphytic species might be Coelogyne prolifera, but requires
taxonomic verification.
An overview of the project site of the Orchid Recovery Project.
HOME
CULTURE
spirituality :
design : water
: fashion
ANIMALS
amphibia : reptilia
: butterflies
: panda : takin
TRAVEL
ecotourism : Xishuangbanna
: Shangrila : Yunnan
: Mekong
KNOWLEDGE
books : Buddhist
flowers : consulting :
science of ecology : medicine
PLANTS
& SEEDS
bananas : ginger
: herbs : orchids
: trees : succulents
: lianas :
sacred trees
ART
Gabrielle's traditional motive Chinese
jewelry : Wu Jialin's black and
white photography
ECOSYSTEMS
rain forests : river
banks of the Mekong : pools : sacred
forests : sinter
terraces : chili growing
CHINESE MEDICINE
AIDS/HIV : asthma
: acne :
herpes : hepatitis
: cancer : diabetes
: health tea : malaria
: Puer tea : orchid
tea
WHOLESALE
NatureProducts.Net
is the Thai internet portal for biodiversity products designed to protect endangered
species in cooperation with local ethnic communities
a project of the
TianZi
BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
© 2000 - today
Other ways to support our protection efforts:
Make our Biodiversi-Tea known to international trade: send this file to a tea trader
These are the orchids that grow in our tea mountains:
MAY WE PLEASE REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT
Please support our protection efforts in the orchid mountains of Xishuangbanna. Your donation is used to protect mother plants and to re-introduce orchids to depleted areas:
THANK YOU SO MUCH
The TianZi team
