Parks Canada – Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation

GRIPPs Conservation Program Featured in Atlas Obscura

Just outside the village of Tobermory, Ontario, in a protected area called Bruce Peninsula National Park, there lives a small population of a tiny plant called the Hill’s Thistle.

In Anticipation of Canada’s 150th Anniversary GRIPP Re-distributes 150 In Vitro Grown Hill’s Thistle Back into their Native Environment in Collaboration with Parks Canada

A project by the University of Guelph's Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, also known as GRIPP, may be able to save endangered and threatened plant species by using in vitro technology to grow multiple plants in the lab from just a few source samples