++REPLAY++Kew looks to native wildlife of Cameroon for 2023 Orchid Festival

(8 Feb 2023)
UK KEW ORCHID

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK - 2 February 2023

1. Tilt up of florist and gardener working on an orchid display in shape of a lion’s mane at the Kew Gardens orchid festival
2. Mid of florist working on display
3. Various of lion’s face
4. Various of gardener working on display
5. Various of orchids
6. Low angle of florist working on display
7. Mid of florist working on display
8. Tilt up from orchids to gardener
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Solene Dequiret, supervisor of the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew:
“We have 6,200 plants that got brought for the orchid festival. Within those, 3200 are orchids and you have mainly phalaenopsis orchids and cymbidiums. Those orchids have been bred for many years and we have a varied choice of colours and shapes for our design.”

10. Tilt down from orchids to hippo sculpture
11. Close of hippo sculpture
12. Tilt down from cascade of orchids to crocodile sculpture
13. Mid of crocodile sculpture
14. Various of orchids
15. Various of giraffe sculpture
16. Tilt down from orchid display to path
17. Various of orchids
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Solene Dequiret, supervisor of the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew:
“So we took inspiration from the native fauna and flora of Cameroon, but also from their huge diversity, melting pot of communities. There is over 250 different communities in Cameroon and chefferies (chiefdoms). And they have amazing artwork, beaded artwork. So we took this inspiration of the bead for our necklace of orchids. And also they've got fabric and all those colours. We took that as an inspiration for the palette of colour we used.”

19. Pan left of art exhibition ‘Portrait of a Community, Features of the Land,, a series of photographs by Yvon Ngassam of the village of Lolodorf, Cameroon
20. Various of exhibition
21. Various of Christine Eyene, exhibition curator, looking at exhibition
22. Close of photograph
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Eyene, exhibition curator:
“The series was taken in Bikoka, which is a really small village, but it's in the forest region. So the region where the photographs have been taken is actually similar to the region where Kew scientists have been doing their research. So there are also a lot of landscapes in the photographs and some of them blend with the nature that is found here at the Princess of Wales Conservatory.”

24. Wide of orchid arch
25. Various of orchids UPSOUND of soundscape of music and noises representing Cameroon
26. Various of installation hanging from roof UPSOUND of soundscape of music and noises representing Cameroon
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Eyene, exhibition curator:
”Really it's about in a way the Black presence at Kew Gardens and in this conservatory. There's also a soundscape that goes with the exhibition. So it's about the sound from our culture and we want people to sort of be immersed in the sonic environment that they would get if they were going to Cameroon.”

28. Various of Professor Michael Fay, Senior Research Leader (Conservation Genetics), RBG Kew, looking at orchid
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Michael Fay, Senior Research Leader (Conservation Genetics), RBG Kew:
“Cameroon has about just over 400 species of wild orchids. And we know where we are with about 25% of those. And they have about the same level of threats as orchids worldwide, so that somewhere between 60% and 70% of them are threatened with extinction in the wild.

30. Tilt down of orchids
31. Various of orchids






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