The race to save a Norfolk Island species

Norfolk Island’s Mountain Procris is one of the rarest plants on earth, with fewer than 20 of the fleshy stemmed shrubs remaining in the wild. 

Since 2018, the team at Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Garden has learned through trial and error how to propagate and care for the plant, including some innovative new techniques that they hope will help boost numbers for planting out in revegetation sites in the national park and on private property.

Mountain Procris conservation is supported by Australian Government funding under the Saving Native Species program.