Vanessa Thomas-Williams leads St Helena Government's, Terrestrial Conservation team on a mission to protect the island's endemic plants. (See links below)
This film follows the workers to some of the 15 different living gene bank locations for seed collecting exercises and site maintenance.
We take a close-up look at what goes on at the Conservation team's headquarters, at the EMD Nursery, at Scotland, including seed sorting and storage, planting, saving infected endemics and working with the brand new micro propagation lab.

Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:01 St Helena
00:02:16 The Team
00:03:46 Mount Vesey
00:06:05 Seed Sorting
00:07:47 Peaks Nursery
00:09:40 Soil Sieving
00:11:14 Dogwood Seedlings
00:13:10 Cox's Battery
00:18:29 Seed Storage
00:20:19 Swampy Gut
00:21:43 Drummond's Point
00:23:46 The Ginger Patch
00:25:16 Pests & Diseases
00:26:44 Nursery Complex, Scotland
00:27:04 Whitefly on the Boxwood
00:27:32 Mealy Bug on the Salad Plant
00:28:16 Rope Access Training
00:29:13 Micro Propagation Lab
00:30:38 End Sequence
00:31:38 Credits

More about SHG's EMD, here: https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/portfo...
For work opportunities with the St Helena Government, visit:
https://sthelenapublicservicejobs.sh/
For short-term holiday or business accommodation on St Helena, visit: https://travelsthelena.com/

FILM PRODUCTION
'Saving St Helena's Endemic Plants' was filmed mostly between Jan - Oct 2022. A few stock clips of the island were acquired outside of this time.
Footage was captured using a combination of six different cameras, which included an action camera and two different drones.
Some of the main equipment used in making this film:
Main camera: https://amzn.to/44wD4NP
Action camera: https://amzn.to/3On2oAc
Drone: https://amzn.to/3K2NBbx

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The opening 26 secs of this film contains licensed stock footage. Music tracks in this film are used under license. Full copyright of the video footage that follows is owned by Darrin & Sharon Henry of Capricorn Studios, St Helena, and should not be copied or extracted, in part or whole, for use in other projects without written permission from the owners.