SAVE TORREYA From the Brink of Oblivion!!!!!!!!!

Why save Torreya?

• Only one wild population: Biltmore Gardens• Brink of extinction: fewer than 1000

individuals remain • It’s easy, legal, and cheap • Global warming is going to shift Torreya’s

habitat and without assisted movement Torreya will cease to exist

Preserving Ecosystem Function

• Torreya’s habitat is similar to that of many other species like tuliptrees, sweet gum trees, bald cypress, hemlocks, and a host of shrubs and forbs (such as mayapple).

• Presumably, a climatic shift could render these species vulnerable to extinction as well

• Assisting the migration of Torreya could serve as a pilot study in saving these other species and preserving ecosystem functioning in these habitats

• Large and irrevocable impacts little understood by scientists –We will never reach a point in which we

completely understand every contingency in ecosystems – Time is of the essence. If we don’t act now,

it could be TOO LATE!!

• Just as the Torreya has been disappearing from our presentation, so too will this beautiful, important and enchanting tree vanish into the sands of time if we don’t act NOW!

• If you have a genuine desire to counteract the disequilibria with nature that humans have caused please visit: www.torreyaguardians.org