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Venus Flytrap Champions

recognizing & assisting landowners with Venus Flytrap on their property
WHY WE ARE HERE

Help us to defend  populations of the amazing Venus Flytrap!

Surveys of known populations of Venus Flytrap in the Carolinas in 2019 and 2020 documented a continuing decline due to urban/suburban development and a lack of burning where appropriate habitat for this rare, charismatic plant species still exists. ​
Venus Flytrap Champions recognizes and assists landowners and land managers in the Carolinas who want to ​care for populations of this rare carnivorous species. We believe landowners can play a significant role in maintaining and increasing the remaining habitat for
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Frog in pitcher plant. Photo by Larry Mellichamp.
Venus Flytrap and the other insectivorous ​and uncommon plant species that grow with it. We are collaborating with the following agencies and nonprofit organizations to create a support network for people managing Venus Flytrap habitat on private property: ​
​On July 24, 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published their decision not to list Venus flytrap as a federally threatened or endangered species.
Read about that decision and our response HERE.

Read an article at the Coastal Review (news service of the NC Coastal Federation).
  • NC Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
  • NC Coastal Land Trust
  • NC Friends of Plant Conservation 
  • NC Forest Service
  • NC Longleaf Coalition
  • NC Native Plant Society
  • NC Natural Heritage Program
  • ​NC Plant Conservation Program
  • NC Wildlife Federation​​
  • NC Wildlife Resources Commission
  • North Carolina Botanical Garden
  • Southern Conservation Partners
  • The Longleaf Alliance
  • USDA Forest Service
  • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • University of North Carolina Herbarium
  • ​Coastal Plain Conservation Group

Think you might have Flytrap habitat on your land? Here's what to look for. 

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September 2023 — Venus Flytrap Champions founder Julie Moore was named one of Garden & Gun magazine's Champions of Conservation.
READ about it (includes a short video).
June 24, 2023 —  Julie Moore and Chuck Roe of Southern Conservation Partners (sponsor of Venus Flytrap Champions) participated in a Community Day at Moores Creek National Battlefield, a National Park Service site in southeastern North Carolina, located not far from Wilmington and in the region to which Venus Flytraps are native. Park staff is interested in reestablishing flytraps. Unfortunately, their native population of Venus Flytrap died after it was flooded for too long, due to a culvert that became blocked after a hurricane. Julie and Chuck were invited to set up a table and talk with visitors about Venus Flytrap and about the nearby Black River, home to swamp forests featuring the oldest trees in eastern North America.
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August 30, 2023 — Boiling Springs Lakes, NC​:
Under a permit with the City of Boiling Spring Lakes from the NC Plant Conservation Program (NC Dept. of Agriculture), a total of at least 1100 flytraps were relocated by energetic volunteers from wet roadside ditches to appropriate habitat on a safe site on city property. Local residents were assisted by volunteers from the NC Native Plant Society, North American Sarracenia Conservancy, and summer interns with TheNature Conservancy. ​
The following article in Coastal Review profiles this rescue and relocation:  Coastal Review article

An earlier effort in the Boiling Spring Lakes area (September 2022) is profiled in this article by Patty Langer in Southport Magazine:

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A specialty Venus Flytrap license plate  has been proposed in North Carolina. Learn more HERE.

Introducing our new poster about Venus flytrap. . .  learn more on our RESOURCES page.
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For more information, contact Southern Conservation Partners, our lead project sponsor. 


Telephone   919-500-6598