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The plant that was named as an endangered plant that was found in HA.Kelaa to be named as “Kelavaki” by the environment ministry.
Ministry of environment has said that the newly recorded endangered mangrove plant was named by the Dhivehi Language Institution of the Maldives.
The ministry added that, they decided to name the plant Kelavaki as the other species are also named this way and also to keep in line with the island that they found out, namely Kelaa.
The Environment ministry broadcasted the news of the founding of this plant on the 8th of October. On that day, the ministry said that the plant was found in Kelaa and this is a very rare type of an endangered plant.
This new species of trees were found when the ministry was conducting a survey on the islands mangroves earlier this year on the month of March. The ministry has said that finding such an endangered species from our eco-system specially in Kelaa would give a special place to the island by the world.
This survey was funded by USAID and did not cost a penny for the government to conduct it. The survey was under a project named “Regenerate” which is also in collaboration with International Union for Conservation Nature -IUCN.
This tree was identified by the mangrove specialist who is from the IUCN who is also the list coordinator.
The new mangrove species tree is among the critically endangered one from the two listed by the world specialists. This is also in the list of very much endangered trees of the world declared by IUCN. So far, this tree has been found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar.
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