APROVACA, the Glossary
APROVACA (Spanish Asociación de Productores de Orquídeas de El Valle y Cabuya) is a non-profit organization established to conserve and protect native orchids in El Valle de Antón, Panama.[1]
Table of Contents
6 relations: El Valle de Antón, Endemism, Orchid, Orchid Conservation Coalition, Plant nursery, Poaching.
- 2001 establishments in Panama
- Nature conservation in Panama
- Non-profit organizations based in Panama
- Orchid organizations
- Orchids of Panama
El Valle de Antón
El Valle de Antón, generally called El Valle, or Anton's Valley in English, is a town of 7,600 in the Coclé province of Panama.
See APROVACA and El Valle de Antón
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Orchid Conservation Coalition
The Orchid Conservation Coalition (OCC) is a grassroots organization made up of people, orchid societies, and orchid businesses dedicated to raising awareness and money for orchid conservation. APROVACA and orchid Conservation Coalition are orchid organizations.
See APROVACA and Orchid Conservation Coalition
Plant nursery
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size.
See APROVACA and Plant nursery
Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
See also
2001 establishments in Panama
- APROVACA
Nature conservation in Panama
- ANCON
- APROVACA
- La MICA Biological Station
- Marine Exhibition Center of Punta Culebra
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Non-profit organizations based in Panama
Orchid organizations
- APROVACA
- American Orchid Society
- American Orchid Society Visitors Center and Botanical Garden
- Giardino delle Orchidee Spontanee del Mediterraneo
- Italian Group for Research on Hardy Orchid
- Khonghampat Orchidarium
- Orchid Conservation Coalition
- Orchid of the Year
- Sessa Orchid Sanctuary
Orchids of Panama
- APROVACA
- Abel A. Hunter
- Acineta chrysantha
- Acrorchis
- Bletia reflexa
- Brachionidium folsomii
- Brassia allenii
- Brassia gireoudiana
- Brassia lanceana
- Bulbophyllum sordidum
- Charles Wesley Powell
- Chysis aurea
- Coryanthes speciosa
- Discyphus
- Gongora armeniaca
- Gongora aromatica
- Gongora fulva
- Horichia
- Houlletia odoratissima
- Lycaste macrophylla
- Lycaste powellii
- Masdevallia striatella
- Maxillaria variabilis
- Mormodes atropurpurea
- Neomoorea
- Paphinia cristata
- Paphinia vermiculifera
- Peristeria elata
- Rhynchostele
- Rodriguezia lanceolata
- Scaphyglottis longicaulis
- Stanhopea avicula
- Stanhopea cirrhata
- Stanhopea costaricensis
- Stanhopea ecornuta
- Stanhopea warszewicziana
- Tropidia polystachya
- Zelenkoa