Extreme botany: How Kew collects plants from remote desert oases 🏜️🪂

Scientists from Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in the UK have worked with a team of Brazilian paramotorists in the Peruvian desert to recover and study endangered species from fragile and inaccessible ecosystems. “The idea was to use them to travel to areas that we could not get to, and collect samples and [cause] very little damage,” says Justin Moat, senior research leader at Kew and lead author of the study.

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