Thornscrub Sanctuary: Fundraiser Shirt 1:

Name: Thornscrub Sanctuary: Fundraiser Shirt 1
Brand: Cactaceae Storeiencius
Price: 64.0 USD
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We've teamed up with our friend the great Joey Santore aka
@crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt to create a little fundraiser for his 501c3 conservation nonprofit @the_thornscrub_sanctuary

Purchase of this product helps support the sanctuary!

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Thornscrub Sanctuary is a 501c3 Non-profit based out of South Texas that’s dedicated to conservation, education and research around the rare habitat type known as Tamaulipan Thornscrub, an ecosystem which is found only in the South Texas-Northern Mexico Borderlands and harbors a number of rare plants - especially cacti - and animals species.

Thornscrub Sanctuary owns a 150 acre stretch of Thornscrub Habitat that harbors populations of rare plants such as Lophophora williamsii (Peyote), Mammilaria sphaerica (Pale Mammilaria), Nahuatlea hypoleuca (Chumonque), Echinocereus poselgeri (Pencil Cactus) and rare animals such as the Reticulated Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus reticulatus).

Our mission is to protect and conserve these species as well as study them. Numerous threats to the cactus species such as Lophophora williamsii and Mammilaria sphaerica exist in the region. Some of the greatest threats to these species which are causing drastic declines in their populations are land clearance/habitat destruction, poaching, and excavation and uprooting by feral pigs. We hope to host researchers, visiting scientists, Native American groups (for whom Peyote and Peyote habitat is sacred), and educators. Our goal is to have the infrastructure to provide temporary housing for visiting researchers, as well as fencing to protect our conservation property from feral hogs which have caused extensive damage to some areas of the habitat.

Our primary expenditures right now are fencing to protect certain regions of the habitat that have the densest cactus populations. We also hope to raise funds to drill a well so that there is water for wildlife tanks as well as for minimal human use. We have no other infrastructure on the property right now except for a small shade structure, but hope to eventually raise funds to erect a main building on the North Side of the property to host groups, have a kitchen area, bunkhouse, library, and small lab for microscopy.

We are in the process of completing botanical surveys for the property so that we will eventually have a complete plant list listing the genus and species of every plant found on the property, as well as soil maps illustrating the 4 or 5 different habitat types found on the property, from thin-soiled caliche lomas to deeper-soiled mesquite woodlands.

We hope to one day serve as an epicenter of research for botanists, biologists and ecologists looking to study this rare habitat type as well as a place of spiritual respite for members of the Native American Church looking for a place to pray or hold ceremonies.

https://thornscrubsanctuary.org

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Illustrated by Lauren Lozano

$64.00