GOOD YEAR 2011 With 2010 ending the Year of Biodiversity. And in early 2011, International Year of Forests, so does the Conservatory Plant Collections Specialist (CCVS) as a tree.
What a tree asked the writer Michel Tournier in
Fugue du Petit Poucet ? "A
tree is primarily a balance between a crown and aerial roots underground. This purely mechanical balance alone contains a whole philosophy. For it is clear that the branches can grow, expand, embracing a corner of heaven increasingly large proportion as the deepest roots, multiply, divide into rootlets of growing to solidify the building. Those who know the trees know that some varieties - especially the cedars - develop their antlers recklessly beyond what can insure their roots. Everything then depends on the site where stands the tree . If exposed, if the ground is soft and lightweight, it only takes one storm to flip the giant. So you see, the more you want to raise, the more it must be grounded. Each tree tells you. "
More antlers of our association expands and diversifies, the more roots underground
constituted by its members and its Board of Directors, must be developed to ensure balance and stability. But everyone knows that the slightest breath or any storm could kill what is already more than twenty years of dreams and realities.
Whatever storms we succeed against all odds to keep the sails and we sail
to new adventures. One of the best is to leave the footsteps of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
. The famous navigator and explorer, died two centuries ago (August 31, 1811).
The ambition of the expedition is to better see damage from human activities on the environment and scratch our good planet Earth.
A team established to build and monitor the project "On the trail of Bougainville" (travel, exhibitions, conferences, articles, special issue on "Men & Plants", etc..). The various journeys can be followed on the blog
our website.
The finding of this adventure we will further strengthen and further the role of collections and collectors in the preservation of living plant. The first major project of computerization of collections undertaken actuellement par le CCVS, indique déjà le remarquable potentiel de l’ensemble des plantes botaniques et horticoles, dont beaucoup se trouvent menacées d’extinction dans la nature.
Que cette année 2011, placée sous le signe de Bougainville et des forêts, apporte à tous un peu d’espoir
et de douceur, « du grain à moudre » pour nous indigner positivement, entrer en résistance et respecter,
dans une pensée durable et solidaire, cet environnement végétal et animal qui nous est cher.
Bonne année
Françoise Lenoble-Prédine
Présidente du CCVS
( Editorial Men & Plants magazine, issue 76 Winter 2010 published in mid-January 2011)
