The International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1972. It is the International Cultivar Registration Authority for carnivorous plants.About the ICPS. International Carnivorous Plant Society. As of June 2011, the society had around 1400 members.Baldwin, M. 2011. From the president. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40(2): 43. The ICPS publishes a quarterly publication, the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter. __NOTOC__
Conservation efforts The ICPS has set up the Nepenthes clipeata Survival Project (NcSP) to facilitate ex situ conservation of this species.Cantley, R., C.M. Clarke, J. Cokendolpher, B. Rice & A. Wistuba 2004. Nepenthes clipeata Survival Project. International Carnivorous Plant Society. With only an estimated 15 plants remaining in the wild as of 1995, Nepenthes clipeata is the most endangered of all known tropical pitcher plants.Simpson, R.B. 1995. Nepenthes and conservation. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 12: 111–118. It is estimated that there are only three or four genetically-distinct lines of "white market" (legally collected) plants in cultivation.
The ICPS partially funded the establishment of The Rare Nepenthes Collection, which aims to conserve four of the rarest Nepenthes species: N. aristolochioides, N. clipeata, N. khasiana, and N. rigidifolia.Ziemer, B. 2010. Exciting conservation news: The Rare Nepenthes Collection project! Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(3): 67.
See also North American Sarracenia Conservancy
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Further reading
Schlauer, J. 1998. The correct naming of carnivorous plants: ICBN, ICNCP, and the roles of CPN and ICPS. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 27(1): 27–28. Meyers-Rice, B. 2001. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 30(2): 43–50. Brittnacher, J. 2002. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 31(3): 77. Brittnacher, J. 2002. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 31(4): 109. Rice, B. 2003. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 32(1): 12–13. Rice, B. & J. Brittnacher 2003. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 32(1): 29. Rice, B. 2005. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 34(4): 111–114.
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